[MPlayer-users] speed difference

[anton]

Could it really be the HD? Even fragmented (i.e., to a near full disk) I 
have never ripped a dvd to HD that took more than about 20mins, and that 
was for 7 or 8 gig. And there it is almost certainly the dvd that is the 
limiting factor... 1-1757/1794 = 0.0206 ish (2.06%) - could that give a 
20% hit in performance? The second disk does have the battle scene 
though..., and generally far more rapid motion (or so it seems). Just 
thoughts.
Cheers
Anton

> The bitrates you posted are different: 1794 on disk1, 1757 on disk2.
> I don't know why that would make so much of a difference, but that will
> alter framerates at least some.
>
> Also, it might very well be that the second disk has more rapid
> motion/changes, which are more difficult to encode quickly.
>
> Besides that, are "tower" and "tower2" on the same hard drive? Hard
> disk performance is known to decline as data is written farther from
> the edge. Also, since DVD dumps are very large files, the second one
> might be more fragmented because there was less continuous free space
> to jam it into.
>
> ...that's all I can come up with off the top of my head...
>
> -Corey
>
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