I rip a lot of DVD's for my personal video collection and speed is a big factor. Nero Digital is easily the fastest way to rip DVD's into mp4 because the Nero Digital codec seems like the fastest encoder by far and Nero Recode supports multicore processors. Quality isn't as good as other choices, but it's several times faster. But there are times when I'd prefer a xvid or divx video file. Any multicore support? What's the fastest option?
Both XviD and DivX support multiple threads as does I think libavcodec (possible even faster than ateme(nero)). DivX can't output directly to mp4 as far as I know though. Maybe Dr. DivX 2 can?
Ah, I didn't see the # of threads setting in the xvid configuration windows. When I configure Xvid for 2 threads, the CPU utilization goes from 50% to 60%. Adding more threads doesn't seem to make a difference. So I guess Xvid is working my computer a little bit harder than before. I'm using #1 DVD Ripper. Does the program matter when it comes to dual core utilization?
