Video Encoding Performance - Windows Media Encoder 9.0

For our next video encoding test we took Windows Media Encoder 9.0 and encoded the same chapter from the Star Wars Episode I DVD into a 2Mbps VBR WMV file using Media Encoder's built in 2Mbps DVD VBR settings. The time reported is in minutes to encode, lower being better obviously:

Windows Media 9 Encoding Performance
Converting DVD to 2Mbps VBR - Lower is Better
Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz (875P-533MHz)

Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz (875P-800MHz)

Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz

Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz (875P-533MHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz

AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (2.25GHz)

AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.167GHz) Barton

AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (2.167GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz

AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.083GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz

AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.00GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.50GHz

Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz

AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz

Intel Pentium 4 2.20GHz

AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73GHz)

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67GHz)

AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.60GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 2.0AGHz

Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz)

AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 1.9GHz

AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (1.40GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 1.8AGHz

Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz

AMD Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33GHz)

Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz

Intel Pentium 4 1.6AGHz

Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz

Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz

7.97

8.00

8.13

9.90

9.95

10.03

10.23

10.33

10.37

10.65

10.88

11.30

11.32

11.77

12.28

12.60

12.63

12.63

13.08

13.53

13.93

14.02

14.03

14.55

14.58

15.13

15.22

15.33

15.77

16.33

16.90

17.08

18.28

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  • Anonymous User - Friday, September 19, 2003 - link

    Umm...right whatever, at least we can spend $2000 and get a powerful monster where as you get a let me see...133Mhz G3?! (OK, that's pushing it but you get the idea.) Besides, I might get a 3.0C Pentium-IV! BUAHAHHAH!
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, July 20, 2003 - link

    http://anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1810

    Umm, make that the APPLE Powermac G5, and it's not 800MHz, it's 1GHz!

    You pee cee people crack me up. Enjoy your little kids toys!
  • Thatguy97 - Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - link

    Lol how times change
  • mwdmeyer - Thursday, March 18, 2021 - link

    Lol how times change

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