Janskeet said:
I beleive Windows XP only recognizes up to 3 GB of RAM but Vista recognizes a lot more I'm sure. I'm thinking of building a new computer like a year down the road so by then 8GB might be the standard when 2-4 GB is right now. As for re-encoding at a lower bitrate, that is beyond me. I don't know how to do that. I don't expect you to tell me either if you don't want to, I can look that up on google.

Wrong.

32 bit XP and 32 bit Vista will still only see >4GB of memory. To use more than that you'll have to go to a 64 bit version of either OS.