iPod touch Handbrake question

[jelloyacket]

I think I'm doing something wrong...

The setup: ripping DVDs (from a hard-drive image) down to the "iPod hi-res" preset in Handbrake, except I'm choosing mpeg4 instead of h.264. 1-pass encoding, audio mixdown to stereo, and auto-crop.

The observation: using the same settings, my old PC (800MHz P-III, 512 MB) encodes about 50% faster than my Powerbook 12-inch (1.33 GHz G4, 768 MB).

What gives? Is Handbrake really optimized that much better for the Intel instruction sets (even on old chips)?

On another note, when I have multiple videos in the queue on the PC, the encoding stops after each one, and I have to click an "OK" button for it to continue. The Mac version advances automatically.

 

[dagored]

iIts been noted in various posts that Handbrake works better on the Mac than Windows machines. if you search the forum, there was a thread that listed free apps that Windows people used and liked.

I'm a mac guy so I can't help with those apps. I use only Handbrake and it flies on my machine.

 

[jelloyacket]

Yeah, having read the other forums, I was expecting that. Except in my case it's the opposite, my 7-year-old PC is spanking my 2-year-old Mac.

 

[dagored]

Understandable. It all depends on the processor speed and amount of RAM.