On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Craig Smith <craigallynsmith at gmail.com> wrote: >> I will report performance improvement once I get everything working. > > > > On a good day, my old Pentium3 (single core) @ 730Mhz (1461.97 bogomips) > with 500mb RAM would compute 40MB of mp4 data in 12 to 13 hrs. > > > > Now my new i5 @3.5Mhz (4 cores at 6997.97 bogomips) with 32gb RAM cranks > out 200 to 300 MB of mp4's in an hour or two. > > That's about 6x more data in an eighth of the time. I'm glad it is working well. If you need a bit of a laugh, re: bogomips: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BogoMips >From the article: An oft-quoted definition of the term is "the number of million times per second a processor can do absolutely nothing". It seems like someone brought that to my attention some time back when I was looking at bogomips numbers as a performance indicator. - Justin