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My brain currently hurts, i've been trying to work this out for ages and meh, i cant which is annoying. The basic problem is thusly; My granddad used to wander around the place with a video camera recording things, place, events and the family, as such he has a fair amount of footage on tape. Now, tape degrades after a while so my dad has come up with a great idea of burning them all to DVD, thus saving the lot. The only problem is, its a bit of a slow process to do it all, 30mins of DVD took over 4hours to encode, so muggins here has been tasked with finding a better system to encode 'em with. Currently he has an AthlonXP2.2Ghz iirc (certainly no faster), 1Gig DDR ram and IDE harddrives of various sizes. Now, based on what I've heard thus far I thought P4s were the best for this kind of thing, however someone has thrown the old AMD64 spanner into the works and frankly, after about 2hours of looking at stuff I'm none the wisers as to which to go for. Note: The software he has is only 32bit (ofcourse) so wont take advantage of any spinky 64bit-ness to make things go faster. So, what do you all knowning people recommend going with? And try to keep the prices sane [wink]