H264 codec problem

[gboado]

Hi,
I tried to stream / transcode an avi compressed with Divx to H264. The avi file plays fine and can be streamed / transcoded to WMV2 without a hitch.
The H264 trsnscoding, however, failed miserably. The CPU usage climbed to 99% (P4 2.4 Ghz, 512 MB RAM, Intel MB) and the machine almost crashed (XP Pro SP2, took about 3 minutes to pop up the task manager).
It happened the same in all the previous versions of vlc that I tried.

[Athlon2x]

Have a look on h264 specifications (google is your friend). You will understand.

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[pieroxy]

Have a look on h264 specifications (google is your friend). You will understand.

Do you mean H264 is too cpu-hungry to be played on a "regular" PC? I tried google, but around a gazillion links pop-up and none on the first page talked about this issue...

[Rizal]

The short answer is yes