On 2004-12-20 (Monday) 21:26, Sundara Pandian wrote: > I dont wish to start a flame war here about which distro is better , was posting > my observations and suggestions. > I did some accoona searches and found this article on anandtech > > http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2114&p=2 > > pl do have a look. Can you give us the output of 'hdparm -tT /dev/hda' with both SuSE and Fedora? The only big difference they can encounter when encoding video is the disk IO. If SuSE does 'hdparm -d1 -c1 -u1 /dev/hda' or similar (typing by hard) maybe they ran Fedora without DMA enabled and SuSE with. -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev Registered Linux User #291323 at counter.li.org GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/DA454F79 http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 684F 688B C508 C609 0371 5E0F A089 CB15 DA45 4F79