[mythtv-users] New Mac Mini - one unrelated informal benchmark...

[Dave Johnson]

Does anyone care about home built HTPCs anymore ?  The only thing
MythTV does well is marketing !

bleh - what a troll

"Very slow piece of junk"  hahaha - the droll troll

-=dave

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:55:47 -0800, Ian Bishop <IBISHOP at bclc.com> wrote:
> I've used cleaner 5 for Windows and it is a very slow piece of junk.  It
> does however work well in an automated video production environment.
> 
> Does anyone even care about the Mac/PC comparison anymore?  The only
> thing Apple does right these days is marketing.
> 
> Ian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Dave Johnson
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:40 AM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] New Mac Mini - one unrelated informal
> benchmark...
> 
> speaking of unrelated benchmarks...
> 
> I while ago I was processing analog VHS corporate media -> MJPEG full
> NTSC
> captures -> MPEG2 DVD-spec'd streams with Discreet's Cleaner 5. My G3
> tower
> was talking an excruciating 12hrs to process each 1/2-hr clip.  I
> decided
> I'd setup my 1.1GHz PC to do the same so I could process multiple files
> simultaneously in order to make a deadline.
> 
> Here are the specs:
> 
> PC:
> 1GHz PIII (256kB L2, 153MHz FSB, 1150MHz CPU Speed/1150MHz L2 Cache
> Speed)
> CUSL-2 Mobo
> Windows 2000 Professional (forget SP number)
> 
> Mac:
> G3 Tower 266MHz (512kB L2, 84MHz FSB, 292MHz CPU/194MHz L2)
> Original Rev. A "Beige" codname "Gossomer" Mobo
> Mac OS 10.1.6
> 
> Subsystems that were identical on each machine (exactly identical, as
> they
> each used the same exact hardware):
> 512MB ECC SDRAM "Crucial" (the Mac didn't utilize the ECC function but
> the
> CUSL-2 did)
> Adaptec 29160 U3 SCSI Controller (160MB/s)
> 3x 36GB Atlas III 10k M160 SCSI Drive (1 boot/temp, 1 source, 1
> destination)
> Cleaner 5.0.0 (Mac/PC)
> 
> MJPEG source file was cropped, color-spaced correction, and heavily
> processed with highest quality settings for a 5-7Mbps MPEG2 DVD-Spec
> stream.
> The repeatable results show approximate times:
> 
> PC: 18Hrs
> Mac: 12Hrs
> 
> Make of this what you will, but it is CERTAINLY not straight MHz, or
> even
> bus speeds.
> 
> Anyone can argue any section of this totally informal test as invalid.
> The
> easiest is to claim that Discreet may not have optimzied the code for
> the PC
> version of the software but I just can't imagine that would be the case.
> If
> we assume that Discreet abides by the rules of capitolizm, then we have
> to
> assume that they put as much effort as attempting to build a quality
> product
> on each platform.  If this is even remotely true, then the results
> certainly
> support the idea that the PPC processing platform can really munge
> data...
> and FAST.
> 
> okay, you platform biggots can flame amongst yourselves ;)
> 
> -=dave
> 
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