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Handbrake questions
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Here's my temps with the fans on my "heavy work" setting after an hour of video encoding via Handbrake. I also attached both settings I use for SMC fan control....forgot to get a baseline. My speeds aren't really that increased over my minimum speeds for heavy work. I'm thinking of maybe increasing them slightly.
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nice settings,
where did ou get the temperature read out from that shows all your temps for drives/cpus/heatsinks?
thanks for the settings
I use the widget iStat Pro - you can google it and it's a free download. It's great to monitor the temperature of all your Mac Pro innards!
http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/
I use the widget iStat Pro - you can google it and it's a free download. It's great to monitor the temperature of all your Mac Pro innards!
http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/
funny i actually had the istat nano version!!
how do you take a pic of your desk top or widget so i can post a pic of my stats?
There are a couple of ways that I know how to do this. If you want to take a pic of the whole desktop you use: Command+Shift+3. If you want to capture a selection: Command+Shift+4 and then use your mouse to click and highlight the section. You can also use Grab in Utilities I think - never have, I find the above tricks best. Once you capture your whole desktop or just a selection it becomes a PDF on your desktop - it doesnt go to the clipboard or anything.
command shift 4 works great!! thanks
here is a pic of my stats do they seem kind of high in places to you or anyone?
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ripit for dvd burning? or macthe ripper? along with handbrake?
Any one use ripit or mac the ripper? I have used handbrake, but arent you supposed to rip the disk to the drive first, then use handbrake?
Also wondering which of these removes the encryption in order to rip the disc?
thanks (avid windblows user, so the mac "way of the fist" is new to me!!)
thanks
Any one use ripit or mac the ripper? I have used handbrake, but arent you supposed to rip the disk to the drive first, then use handbrake?
Also wondering which of these removes the encryption in order to rip the disc?
thanks (avid windblows user, so the mac "way of the fist" is new to me!!)
thanks
Mine are all in Celsius and I'm not really gonna try and convert all of those in my head. Switch yours over to Celsius and we can compare them to mine - my temps are after the computer had been encoding video via Handbrake for an hour+ so they are higher then normal. I'll have to get baseline temps tonight after I start my MP and use it for about 30 min or so of light stuff.
I use Mac The Ripper to rip the Video_TS folder onto my HDD and then use Handbrake. You can use Handbrake all the way through - decryption & encoding. I like Mac the Ripper because I can rip a few DVDs to my HDD each night and then once or twice a week I can set up Handbrake to encode the video. If you just use handbrake to decrypt and encode, then you have to be there to switch out each DVD.
you use celsius huh? ok will do later this evening!
so mac the ripper and handbrake it is!!
i also like to rip the entire video off the disc and encode later, my ps3 still sees the folder and plays them so if i do not get to the movies for a while at least they can still play on ps3.
can you use the utility programs to creat an iso imge of the videos as well?
or is there a different way to do that?
thanks
No, they're very low. For example, my power supply is currently at 82ºC, although admittedly that's pretty high. Normally it sits around 75ºC.
is it a good idea or a bad idea to not check the box under energy saver in preferences that says to let hard drives sleep?
especially when transcoding movies/tv shows?
does it matter?
everytime i check it and they fall asleep i open up the computer again and nything i hd opened is now closed!
especially when transcoding movies/tv shows?
does it matter?
everytime i check it and they fall asleep i open up the computer again and nything i hd opened is now closed!
Good idea. The actual wording is "put hard disk(s) to sleep when possible". In other words, if the drive is not in use for a while, it will spin down. Since it's in use during ripping/transcoding, the processes will be unaffected, but you will save hard drive life at other times.
Your temps seem just fine, although I'm a little curious why your Mac HDD is 39 C. I've never really had mine about 30-32 C before. Is that just the stock HDD in there? I shed mine a while ago so maybe that's it.
I have the stock hdd, and another one of 400 gigs for bootcamp!
why did you get rid of your stock hdd?
I have another 500gig i may install to get rid of the stock 320, but does it really make a difference?
I got rid of mine because I needed more room and a faster drive. To expensive to buy HDDs from Apple, so I went with base 320GB and just upgraded through Newegg. I have a Samsung Spinpoint F1 750 GB as my OS X & Documents drive. I find that the performance is better. I also have a WD Caviar Black 1 TB for my iTunes folder and then 2x1TB WD Caviar Green's backing up those two drives.
ok cool, i have a external 1tb my book, 2 (not put in yet) 1 tb wd greens as well, 1 500 gig wd internal (not in yet) and 1 26 external usb wd.
i will probab ly throw them all in sometime?
why so many back up drives? I have never set anything up as back ups
but use mine for music/movies/ and entertainment though so it may be smart to do so?
Yes. Make a backup now or you will regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
I did a bit of research and it seems that 55-60ºC is the upper limit for hard drives. Mine usually sits around 50ºC. (Aluminum iMac)
I did a bit of research and it seems that 55-60ºC is the upper limit for hard drives. Mine usually sits around 50ºC. (Aluminum iMac)
why so many back up drives? I have never set anything up as back ups
I just have no interest in losing all of my personal documents, pictures, movies, etc. Believe me, you'll regret that - I had a friend lose his wedding and honeymoon pics and he had lost the hard copies, and couldn't locate the photographer in case she had backups. That's not going to happen to me! I'm thinking of getting a 2 TB WD caviar (on sale at Best Buy it seems) and sticking it in an enclosure, hooking it up to my router in the living room, and doing a second set of backups...like in case my Mac Pro was stolen or something. No one's gonna steal the 2 TB drive hidden in my entertainment unit! (I hope!)
Any chance you can share where you found this? I'm interested in the upper limits for RAM, PS, and CPU for the MP...also if there happen to be upper limits to any of the MP fan RPMs. Can seem to find that last for the life of me!
On Google somewhere. The article I found was specifically related to hard drives, but I'm sure you could find what you're looking for as well as I could.
What kind f router do you have hat allow h hook up for backups?
if run ime machine what will it back up?
I would not mind backin up all my drives, just no tech savy to do so,
and not a lot of mony to go out and purchase all these raid boxes and suff!
thanks for all the help here guys!!
Thanks i appreciate the help, i will look into a cheaper affordable raid set up possible?
what is a good configuration (probably external) that i can get?