how is that divx 5 machine getting TWICE real time encoding?!?!?!

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that machine on ebay (see doom9 news link)boosts TWICE real time encoding!!!

but that machine is not all that, how is it getting such speed??

[soujir0u]

Probably because DivX5 should encode faster than 4.12, plus that system's got 2 CPUs.

[MaTTeR]

It should be faster than 4.12 but I suspect it unfortunately will be some hype as usual. I could be wrong and Divx5.0 supports SMP. Yum...my dualie would love that:)

[Bez]

Originally posted by MaTTeR
It should be faster than 4.12 but I suspect it unfortunately will be some hype as usual. I could be wrong and Divx5.0 supports SMP. Yum...my dualie would love that:)

Well, there's a little bit of hype :-), but it's the real deal. The trick is to do your MPEG-2 decoding on one processor and your DivX video encoding on the other processor. That speeds things up quite a bit.

Oh, and it's optimized like crazy, too. :-)

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[MaTTeR]

@Bez,

Thanks for the headsup. How are you seperating these process over 2 CPUs? Is this a feature of the codec?

When you say it's heavily optimized, I'll assume your speaking about the PIV? Which means like 10% of the users out there will see that speed increase:(

[Diable]

Maybe XP and Tbird onwer should write to AMD and asking them to help Divx Network optimize the divx5 code for their processors like Intel did.

[fileman]

would be great

[BlackSun]

So... this mean this computer come with a special encoding app derived or created by DXN ? :o

Is this application available with the new version of the codec or with this computer ?

[ciler]

Ho my God ! :eek:
But what are you talking about dear BlackSun :confused:

[ppera2]

I don't see that it is something special for dual system. If I can get 33 fps with single 1386 MHz Athlon...

[MaTTeR]

@ppera2

Your getting 33FPS but the claim is 60FPS. So I'd call this pretty special. So on a dual system that doubles what your getting with a single CPU. AFAIK this has never been accomplished before so I'll believe it when I see it:)

[Acaila]

Isn't a dual P4 2Gig already getting 60-70 with DivX4?

Maybe DivX5 is a little faster than DivX4, but it seems to me these figures are already possible.

[MaTTeR]

I bet I could squeeze out 60fps on my dual PIII 850, this would be at crap quality settings though;)

[Sadamitsu]

Who cares about speed? =P
Wasn't DivX 5 supposed to be a lot better quality-wise?

[ChristianHJW]

Originally posted by MaTTeR Thanks for the headsup. How are you seperating these process over 2 CPUs? Is this a feature of the codec?

GordianKnot will almost perfectly support SMP when encoding from DVD ... i get a 85 to 95% CPU usage on my SMP PIII 800 system ... dont forget there are 4 dlls involved :

divx.dll
vdub.dll
mpeg2dec.dll
avisynth.dll

so its easy for Win2k to distribute the work. As most of the iDCT, resizing and filtering is done with the 2nd CPU ( my guess ) i dont even care about the tempsmoother level for filtering ... it will simply result in a little more CPU usage and not decrease encoding speed at all :D ...

[ppera2]

Originally posted by MaTTeR
@ppera2

Your getting 33FPS but the claim is 60FPS. So I'd call this pretty special. So on a dual system that doubles what your getting with a single CPU. AFAIK this has never been accomplished before so I'll believe it when I see it:)

I read in this forum about dual Athlon system encoding speeds couple times. They mentioned double real time encoding speed.
And I can get even 100 fps with Mpeg1 VCD resolution material with Virtual Dub and DivX 4.12...

[MaTTeR]

@Christian

I have basically the same setup as you and am using Gknot as you do. However, doing a 2ps encode for a 1CD rip, the most I ever see is around 27fps. Yes, both of my CPUs are pretty much maxed out as well.

I suppose the point is if I want around 60FPS then I need to spring for one of the new Asus A266 mobos and a couple of 1800XPs:) I'm drooling...