Removegrain in AutoGK

[nixo]

I'm curious as to when AutoGK uses removegrain.
I've done a few test encodes and even with very low compressability values(20-40), the filter does not seem to get introduced in the main .avs file. Is there a way to activate it in such instances?

[len0x]

The filter only works (always works!) on SSE capable CPUs, so if SSE is not detected - its not used. (May be its time I made AutoGK require SSE...)

[nixo]

Well my CPU is not exactly state of the art but I've googled a little and it seems my Athlon XP 1800+ should be capable of SSE. Maybe I have some kind of a hardware problem although I have succesfully used removegrain in GK instead of undot.

[len0x]

which version of AutoGK are you using?

*Edit* Just to make sure: which iDCT_Algorithm is being used in d2v files produced by AutoGK on your system?

[nixo]

Latest beta 1.93. I can post a log file in a few hours if you like(at work now).

*Edit* I'll check the d2v thing later today.

[len0x]

ok, please do.
I have AthlonXP myself and have no problem with RemoverGrain...

[nixo]

Turns out my crappy K7S5A motherboard disables SSE in the official BIOS updates. Flashing it with a not-so-official version should do the trick.
Anyway, sorry to waste your time with this...

[Sharktooth]

Funny, an official bios that disables processor features...

[Beave]

I'm using an AMD64 2800+. With AutoGK 2.08 Removegrain is not used. The d2v file uses idct=5 though.
Cool and Quiet is active.

[cyberVera]

Turns out my crappy K7S5A motherboard disables SSE in the official BIOS updates. Flashing it with a not-so-official version should do the trick.

Excellent motherboard. And it is not able to deactivate SSE (AMI bios is too primitive for that). One of the few motherboards which has north and south bridge in one unit, connected with MuTIOL bus, the fastest in x86 segment, with 1.2(!)G/sec transfer. Memory controller is also one of the fastest. I have seen a lot of motherboards. This one, for its 35(!)$ really impressed me, and I bought it for my dad :-) In Germany it even became a cult.

What is your mobo revision? Is it K7S5A or K7S5Apro? What was your original bios (release date)? And what "not-so-official" bios you try to flash (cheepoman's or honey's)?

[Beave]

It turns out my problem lies with the RemoveGrain DLLs. When I use the new RemoveGrainS.dll where the needed dll are integrated it works fine. Unfortunatly it doesn't work with AutoGK. I renamed that dll to all the different RemoveGrain(SSE).dll, but to no effect.

Copying the msvcr70.dll into the system32 folder didn't help either.

When I load up a AVS script in VDMod I get an error on load, if I put a Loadplugin into the script. Having the RemoveGrainS.dll in the avisynth plugins directory works, if i don't load the other plugin.

[nixo]

The board is v1.x, not a pro board. I can't remember what BIOS I was using at the time but SSE definitely wasn't detected neither in AGK nor in TMPG. I googled a bit and found "The unofficial K7S5A motherboard guide" where it is suggested that:

"If you are running a Thoroughbred CPU on a v1.x/v3.x board and need SSE support, you should use the OC 021209b bios based on the first Pro bios."

So I'm using that one from Honey X and it is working very well...so I probably shouldn't have called it crappy. :-)

[cyberVera]

:-)

[Beave]

So, would it be possible in situations like this to use the RemoveGrainS.dll in AutoGK?