I have to agree with Marc. 800MHz won't quite cut the mustard to decode XviD and then re-encode to MPEG2 at DVD quality (also called transcoding).
I made some conversions the other way around once, on a PII 350MHz. It was painfully slow, took about 18 hours at reduced resolution. Going the other way, even on a better computer, is going to take about a whole 24 hour day for sure.
You'd get close to real time on this even with a brand new config today, but it might still be as much as 4-5 hours to encode a whole film to MPEG-2 from an XviD source. That's a rough guess, too!
Regards,
Fruey.
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