[MEncoder-users] mencoder very slow in windows?

[Nico Sabbi]

Pepe wrote:
> My computer is a AMD Athlon 64 2 GHz and I use linux (SuSE 9.2 compiled for 
> i586).
> 
> I can recode a 42 minute video with mencoder (xvid) in about 20 minutes 
> (about 40 fps).
> 
> I tried just a moment ago to recode a similar video in my sister's laptop (AMD 
> Turion 64, 2 GHz) using windows xp media center. This is the first time that 
> I use mencoder in windows. I used exactly the same options that I use in 
> linux, encoding to xvid too, and using the same version of mencoder (1.0rc1).
> 
> I was amazed that it was extremely slow. I had to stop it, the estimated time 
> was between 90 and 120 minutes, encoding about 9-13 fps.
> 
> What makes that big difference?
> 

did you install nasm before installing xvid?


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