Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 13, 2006 03:01 AM
They have a ton of linux applications available that just work. It is easy to add things into your environment that are "testing" as well.
Granted it compiles everything from Source, but there is something to be said about that when dealing with 64 bit.
One area that is VERY DIFFERENT in the 64 bit world is transcoding movies. It is definitely faster. I transcode mpg recordings from my Hauppage card to AVI, and get around 110 Frames Per Second.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 13, 2006 03:01 AMGranted it compiles everything from Source, but there is something to be said about that when dealing with 64 bit.
One area that is VERY DIFFERENT in the 64 bit world is transcoding movies. It is definitely faster. I transcode mpg recordings from my Hauppage card to AVI, and get around 110 Frames Per Second.
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