Riding the 64-bit Chariot: Choosing Socket 939 and Linux
by Kristopher Kubicki on July 19, 2004 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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Video Encoding
Since MPlayer (MEncoder) do not come with RPMs, we compile the binaries from source with no optimizations. We go through the standard ./configure and make commands for the v1.0pre5 source code. Notice that this benchmark has changed since the last time we ran it.Below is the command that we used to produce a DivX .avi from a 700MB MPEG2.
time mencoder sample.mpg - nosound - ovc lavc vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2 - o sample.avi
Frames per Second, more are better. Frames per second are not calculated in the program, but taken by dividing the number of frames in the file by the time reported in the console.
Generally, our tolerance for this benchmark was about 1%.
Audio Encoding
Lame was compiled from source without optimizations. We only ran ./configure and make without any flags.We ran lame on a 700MB .wav file using the command equivalent to the one below:
lame sample.wav -b 192 -m s -h >/dev/null
Encoding time, lower is better.
Lame shows us that from platform to platform, there is not a significant difference between VIA or NVIDIA. Our tolerance for this test was less than 1% and was extremely replicable.
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mjz5 - Monday, July 19, 2004 - link
another reason to go the AMD route instead of intelJasonClark - Monday, July 19, 2004 - link
Wacky javascript links? Javascript is a standard, and with the popup manager in firefox/mozilla I don't see the issue. Enable popups for the site and your done.Gholam - Monday, July 19, 2004 - link
Eh, I'm writing this in Firefox :)Anyway, nice results. Looks like 64-bit support in applications is what it will take for A64 to battle P4 on it's remaining home turf (encoding). Then again, it'd be interesting to see these benchmarks include Nocona.
gherald - Monday, July 19, 2004 - link
I find it annoying that I can never seem to get this comments page to loads in Mozilla Firefox, the Linux browser of choice.If you're going to write articles about Linux, at least design your site in such a way that it doesn't use wacky javascript popups.
Personally, I think you should just make it a normal web link and be done with it.