MeGui Blu-Ray to 720p x264 encoding speed

[prOnorama]

I'm getting a new PC soon I'm only gonna do like 1-2 Blu-Ray to 720p encodes a month so if it doesn't take a week I'd like to get a cool and energy efficient dual core CPU as opposed to a hot Core i7 (which obviously is much faster)

So how about Blu-Ray to x264 720p encoding speeds, using MeGui DXVA-HD-HQ profile for a 100 minutes progressive film? (seems like a good average, of course I want the encodes to be good quality)

Can anyone give an estimation for their dual or quadcore CPU, like Q6600 or C2D 8400, in hours (or days lol...hopefully not)?

[Inspector.Gadget]

There are way too many variables at work here.

[Dark Eiri]

It really depends on your source, your AVS script, with filtering and all... I wouldn't know with a C2D, but with a C2Q wouldn't take much time (I mean, certainly not a day), specially if you can use CUDA for decoding to take a little load off the CPU. But I wouldn't say more than 12 hours, for sure.

[prOnorama]

It really depends on your source, your AVS script, with filtering and all... I wouldn't know with a C2D, but with a C2Q wouldn't take much time (I mean, certainly not a day), specially if you can use CUDA for decoding to take a little load off the CPU. But I wouldn't say more than 12 hours, for sure.

Thanks for the reply. Generally I won't need too many filters I guess (just crop & resize) on progressive sources (at least I don't need them for Xvid encodes)

12 hours on a quad isn't too bad at all. Going with this recent CPU review ( http://techreport.com/articles.x/16570/7 ) a Q6600 would be roughly 50% faster than a C2D 8400, so still below 24 hours (48 hours would still be acceptable for me)

[Anacletus]

I used to run my encodes with a C2D E8400 at stock 3Ghz and using the profile you mentioned without changing anything and without using any filters in my avs script i had something like 24/25 fps for the first pass (no turbo) and around 6/7 fps for the 2nd pass.

Now i'm using a corei7 920 at stock speed, and i obviously have a huge speed increase over the previous setup :p

I guess it all depends on the bufget you want to set for this purpose and how many encodes you wanna do weekly, i find myself good with the core i7 since i do a lot of encodes hehe

[Dark Eiri]

I actually meant 12 hours for a C2D, hehe!

[prOnorama]

@ anacletus: yeah if you really need it then i7 is the way to go, now how hot does your rig get? :P

@ Dark Eiri: Ha! Great news! It's the sort of stuff they don't want to leak because the want to sell you the newest of the new every month...

I'm actually probably going AMD here: triple core faster than C2D yet still pretty cool. Plus I will be be keeping AMD alive and Intel prices down for all the Intel fanboys :P

Dunno Intel sounds like buying from "The Man AKA The System" and Intarwebz gamer kidz (even though I must admit their processors have generally served me well, I'm not gonna say don't buy them)

Sigh where's the new competition: Intel/AMD is boring (OK Intel did drive VIA out of the mainstream market)

I'll get bitten by the cat or the dog here :(

[Gamezcdr]

Choose profile HD-Balanced is much faster then HD-HQ and you cannot see the diferences with open eyes. Go for Phenom II 920 or 940 is very fast in x264 encoding.

[Dark Eiri]

I also think Phenom X3 is the way to go, if you can't go X4 or C2Q. Just be sure you get an AM3 motherboard, not an AM2+, and you will be safe for years.

[Anacletus]

@prOnorama
The core i7 indeed gets very high temps when on full load, im sitting right now at around 70°... but considering i'm using the crappy stock cooller yet..

Maybe its time to set up some watercooling in my new rig :)