H.264 on Dual 2.0

[macbaseball]

Just curious if anyone has compressed video on the new Dual 2.0. I'm considering buying one, just curious how the it worked and if the times were good. Well, it must be better than my PB, which won't compress in H.264.

 

[crazzyeddie]

Of course your Powerbook will compress H.264... why would it not?

 

[macbaseball]

Of course your Powerbook will compress H.264... why would it not?

I start compressing in H.264 and then it goes to sleep after like half an hour. When I tried to wake it up in the morning, it wouldn't wake up, no matter what I did. I'm going to try to keep it from going to sleep, when I try again tonight.

 

[crazzyeddie]

Well that would probably be a good idea lol. Even a G5, if set to sleep, will mess up encoding. The G5 would probably be at least 2x faster than your Powerbook encoding the video, though.

 

[macbaseball]

Well that would probably be a good idea lol. Even a G5, if set to sleep, will mess up encoding. The G5 would probably be at least 2x faster than your Powerbook encoding the video, though.

It worked just fine compressing MPEG-4 when it went to sleep, even in Tiger.

 

[mikeyredk]

It worked just fine compressing MPEG-4 when it went to sleep, even in Tiger.

Because MPEG-4 is a faster encoder than H.264

 

[vasaz]

You might have just been unlucky! It shouldn't matter what you are encoding... try again, put your computer to sleep, and wake up right after. If it crashes again, then there is definitely a problem somewhere

 

[macbaseball]

You might have just been unlucky! It shouldn't matter what you are encoding... try again, put your computer to sleep, and wake up right after. If it crashes again, then there is definitely a problem somewhere

I think I might reinstall the O.S. as MPEG Streamclip also unexpectedly quits all the time. Maybe I'll go back to Panther, at least until Tiger gets fixed.

 

[Sogo]

Maybe you should set the PB so it doesnt fall asleep...this is probably pointless to say but nonetheless i have said it.

 

[macbaseball]

Maybe you should set the PB so it doesnt fall asleep...this is probably pointless to say but nonetheless i have said it.

Already did, and MPEG Streamclip just quit 3 more times.

I'm leaning towards just stopping video editing until 10.4.1. I think that will be out soon, and then I could make a decision. I'm starting to believe it's the OS, as I didn't have a problem in a year+ running Panther.

Edit:

I ran the hardware test ... I think it's just a combination of doing to many things at once, and not enough RAM, as it said it was fine.