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How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 17:34:20
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| I was encoding CD's to MP3 using ADripper and checking tags using Musictagger but wasnt realy satisfied with it, the tags dont seem to be 100 % correct (or rather to my liking) and editing them is quite a pain (for example a blank year isnt possible, it just says '0') Also I found ripping quite slow.
But that aside....
I found some programs for my WinPC, one of them for ripping and encoding CD's.
I works like this: -When inserting a CD, all tags are found on the internet including album art and it it is possible to select another one if it is not your liking -It reads a track from the CD, when thats finished it starts encoding using the first core of the CPUs, at the same reading the next track -Then it starts encoding that track using the second core, at the same time as the first track being encoded by the first core. And at the same time reading the next track.
And so on, and on... I think that works great ! Encoding two tracks at the same time, each on a different core. Now I'm getting to the point here With al discussions and explanations about how OS4 will use more core's (SMP, AMP, EMP or whatever) I'm a little lost about this and was wondering how multiple core support would work on OS4. Using the same example I gave about ripping tracks from CD Thanks all.
Martin
Last edited by Metalheart on 18-Nov-2014 at 05:37 PM.
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 18:31:41
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Both cores would sit at opposite sides of the computer blowing raspberries at each other till one gives up and encodes the mp3 all by itself in a bit of grumpy mood because it's freind ids't helping.
Until we have more info we can't anything useful more than the above (which, for the hard of humour, is a joke).
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 18:48:02
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I got it, the joke dont worry
I was just wondering, and it might be a nice speculation subject, and also hoping for some input from the Hyperion guys _________________ Theres a time to live and a time to die When its time to meet the maker Theres a time to live but isnt it strange That as soon as you're born you're dying |
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 19:04:38
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Have a listen to Steve Sollie's last two AmiWest presentations.
Edit: I think the 2013 presentation he answered a few questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUbdN8UCCYQ Last edited by Spectre660 on 18-Nov-2014 at 07:45 PM. Last edited by Spectre660 on 18-Nov-2014 at 07:10 PM.
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 19:07:54
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I got it, the joke dont worry
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Phew! But I wasn't really worrying about you in particular not getting the joke Just some of those out there who take our hobby too seriously.
As to speculation, we might as well speculate on the length of string. We've nothing but the idea that multiple cores will be supported at the moment.
More than one core means more than one thing at once, certainly more useful that blowing raspberries but I'm not going to speculate on the format as I haven't even heard a rumour that I couldn't tell you about.
I think given the imminent release of 4.1 FE "official" comenting on features of 4.2 is unlikely as it would undermine sales (there some "internet law" about that kind of thing I think). Last edited by broadblues on 18-Nov-2014 at 07:09 PM.
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 19:20:37
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| @broadblues hmm the quistion is not how does it work with duel but how or does ot work with qoard core or more. hehehe....does it gonna suport multiply suport, i mean can it suport 2 diffrent kind of cpu like classics can, 68k and ppc via warp.. i mean the xzorro is not a ppc or does that react like a pice of eletronic insted and not like a cpu....
will it work iff i stuff a pci or pci-e card with some ppc or power cpu, i have seen even valerys? have ppc accralator cards. will it be posible to use them ??
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 20:06:38
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CD-ripping is slow because reading an audio-CD is very slow, on the X1000 at least. I can hardly *play* an mp3 from a data DVD I have burned because it read so slow and has to wait for complete spinup or something every access. Quite useless for some reason. Can't seem to burn anywhere near full speed either...
Anyway, try CodeAudio for CD-ripping, it might make better tags for you, and at least let's you edit them before ripping. (Use the wizard.)
About multicore: The CD-ripper on Windows does not start one encoding on one code, then the next encoding on the second core etc. It simply starts as many processes as it finds cores in the machine. Windows will then schedule whatever work to whatever core is free at the moment. If you look in the resource manager you can see the work being distributed evenly across all cores, even if only one process is running. That's how Windows works. How Linux works, and AmigaOS will work, I don't know. Last edited by Deniil715 on 18-Nov-2014 at 08:13 PM.
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 20:10:39
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Yes CodeAudio, Ill try that, but with slow ripping I meant ofcourse also slow encoding. Atleast compared to my PC. _________________ Theres a time to live and a time to die When its time to meet the maker Theres a time to live but isnt it strange That as soon as you're born you're dying |
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 20:43:30
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| Future dual core support on OS4 for CD ripping? Dual core = only X1000 or X5000, nothing else. For that money?
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 20:53:35
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It may be that in a middle future, there will be low end dual core A-PPC machines? Just it needs that dual core thing.
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 21:13:08
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 22:04:43
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That's really odd. On my X1000 (which I believe has the standard DVD-RW drive AmigaKit always use) I can rip CDs really fast - doesn't take long at all to rip an entire CD. |
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 22:10:09
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“.devices” are not optimized for spinning disks, that’s what I found out with Mplayer, If file system is asked to read 1 byte it will most likely ask to read 1 block and buffer it, but to find that block the file system has spin to correct location on disc. So if file system never request more then 1 block the device will use most of its time spinning the disk, not reading from it. I think it be possible to make cache device, so that devices that do not cache be cached.
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 22:33:20
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| A lot depends on the drive, too. I have two CD/DVD drives on my X-1000, a SATA drive connected to the on-board SATA port and an IDE drive connected to the on-board IDE port.
Originally I installed only the SATA drive, but I found that, when playing an audio CD, the drive would spin up to top speed, load a bunch of data, spin down while the data was playing, then spin up again, etc. Most annoying.
I must have a dozen SATA drives hanging around here all counted, all bought at different times from different flea markets. I found the same problem on one of the SAMs (forget which one).
So I installed an old IDE drive as well, and that drive runs at a constant (normal) speed whilst playing audio CDs.
I know that the device drivers use the same code, so the up/down fast/slow problem of the SATA drive is not caused by software - it's the drive.
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 23:05:40
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"checking tags using Musictagger but wasnt realy satisfied with it, the tags dont seem to be 100 % correct (or rather to my liking) and editing them is quite a pain (for example a blank year isnt possible, it just says '0')"
Sorry to make shameful advertisement for one of my program, but you could try aTunes to check/edit tags and CoverArt of your MP3/M4A/FLAC (in AMIStore/zTools)! It allows, for example, to blank the year tags.
http://zzd10h.amiga-ng.org/AMIStore/Screenshots/06_zTools_Screenshot.JPG Last edited by zzd10h on 18-Nov-2014 at 11:12 PM.
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 23:13:56
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Looks nice ! Will give it a look.
btw, I'm quite a perfectionist regarding MP3 naming and tagging, so please dont take my critism on musictagger and adripper the wrong way. They are both good programs ! _________________ Theres a time to live and a time to die When its time to meet the maker Theres a time to live but isnt it strange That as soon as you're born you're dying |
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 23:32:50
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What is this 'CD' everyone is talking about? And why would you need to 'rip' one?
Anyway, there is many different things that can be done in the OS [4.x] to make "ripping" of "CDs" faster. And exactly what will be done and by when is a contemplation conversation I only have in front of a roaring fire and a glass of XO Cognac.
The first thing the OS needs to do is make any and all CPU cores addressable by applications. It's the least fancy thing and it puts the onus on the app developer to figure out how to best use it.
To get from that to some intelligent and transparent schedular, well that's a lot of 'future'. Which is kind of moot because by that time all CDs ever made will already be ripped. _________________ All the way, with 68k |
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 23:48:50
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>What is this 'CD' everyone is talking about?
You can't insert music CD's into MP3 players, like this one.
MP3 files are lot more convenient, there are many car radios that accepts USB pens.
And why would you need to 'rip' one?
You can download Music if you wont to using "illegal" applications, or you can convert the music you already own to MP3, this is what is called ripping.
Also CD's get scratches and get damaged, storing music on hd or usb stick is lot more durable.
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 18-Nov-2014 23:55:36
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Re: How would the future dual core support work on OS4 ? Posted on 19-Nov-2014 0:12:44
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