Running scene recognition on a full-length movie (so I can cut out the ads) is a tedious process. My machine specs include
Pentium Dual Core E5200 Intel G33/31 chipset
2GB RAM
XP Home SP3
and the recognition process can use 95%+ of CPU available. Yet it can still take four or five times the duration of the movie itself to complete scene recognition.
Would installing a Graphics Card help?
Hi,
Yes, a graphics card may help somewhat, but what you really need is more ram and a faster CPU. Also, windows XP is not a very video editing friendly operating system, so if you are really serious about editing video and want to improve speed and performance you may wish to consider replacing your existing system. If you decide to go with a new system, look at going to a higher end Quad Core CPU, at least 6GB of RAM, 8 is even better. If I were replacing my current PC today, I would go for the largest amount of RAM that the system could handle. OS, Windows 7 or possibly 8 (I don't run windows 8 yet so I cannot comment on it). Remember, you are now 3 windows OS versions behind the current technology.
It sounds to me like you are using MEP to remove advertisements from movies that your record off TV. Is this correct? If so, you are looking at files that run 1.5 to 2 hours so you could save some time and disc if you recorded them as something other than wmv or mpeg, but you won't have the quality if they are HD recordings.
I have owned a PC that ran every version of window since the windows OS came on the market, and the only version worse than XP in my opinion was Window 2000, Vista was probably the third worse.
Good Luck