Made real use of those 32GB RAM for the first time:
My video recorder spits out DVDs with VOB files on them. I didn't know
how to convert them to regular AVI files, so I had to experiment a
little bit. Now that's a lot of data we're talking about: 3 DVDs,
that's about 12GB. Considering that I wanted to *convert* them, it's
actually 24GB (input + output).
It took quite some time until I knew how to use ffmpeg for the
conversion. But, thanks to that massive amount of RAM, none of the
things I did ever touched my SSD. I copied the VOB files to my ram
disk and ran ffmpeg there.
I consider this to be very important because I want to use my SSD as
little as possible when it comes to large files. During my tests, I
guess I have shuffled around several hundreds of gigabytes: I had to
try several ways to re-encode the files, I found out that audio and
video were not in synch so I had to start all over again, I found out
that all of that only worked for one of the movies, and so on and so
on.
