this little program is amazing, thanks for the hard work!
although I do have a little question, what options do i use only for the first pass and which do i use only for the second? Or do you use them all for both. I'm using megui to get the command line instructions and just copying them for use with controller.exe. At the moment, my megui command line says (for the HQ-slowest profile):
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--pass 2 --bitrate 918 --stats ".stats" --ref 10 --mixed-refs --no-fast-pskip --bframes 3 --b-pyramid --b-rdo --bime --weightb --direct auto --filter -2,-1 --subme 6 --trellis 2 --analyse all --8x8dct --vbv-maxrate 25000 --me umh --threads auto --thread-input --progress --no-dct-decimate --no-psnr --no-ssim --output "I:\example.mp4" "I:\example.avs"
and so for controller.exe im doing
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controller.exe -B 918kbps --first "--ref 10 --no-fast-pskip --bframes 3 --b-pyramid --b-rdo --bime --weightb --direct auto --filter -2,-1 --subme 6 --analyse all --merange 12 --no-psnr --trellis 2 --progress " --second "--ref 10 --no-fast-pskip --bframes 3 --b-rdo --bime --b-pyramid --weightb --direct auto --filter -2,-1 --subme 6 --trellis 2 --analyse all --8x8dct --me umh --merange 12 --no-psnr --no-dct-decimate --no-ssim --no-psnr --vbv-maxrate 25000 --progress" --avs "I:\examlpe.avs" -o C:\example.mkv
is there anything im missing/doing wrong? with these setting and 8 physical cores working on the encoding, it took ~6 hours to encode a dvd thats about 1.5 hours long, which seems reasonable considering the quality setting. Something seems to be wrong with the first pass settings, because when I used megui alone to do the encoding, the first pass was the quickest (~30fps) and the second pass was ~3.5. With my current settings for controller.exe, the first pass took ~4 hours and the 2nd ~2hours.
list of computers workin on encoding (all over 100mb/s lan)
AMD x2 3800+ @2.6ghz (controller) 2 cores (local)
AMD 1800+ (catherine)
P2 350mhz (server)
AMD A64 2800+ (basement)
Centrino 1.6ghz (mom's laptop)
2xP3 500mhz Xeon (staircase)
Speeds at which they work
Code:
Agent | Now | GOPs | Frames | FPS |
Local 1 | 584 | 191 | 35515 | 9.11 |
Local 2 | 395 | 176 | 35362 | 9.61 |
basemnet 1 | 610 | 139 | 24938 | 6.18 |
server 1 | 644 | 7 | 1448 | 0.33 |
mom's laptop 1 | x | 40 | 7095 | 3.87 |
catherine 1 | x | 106 | 18011 | 4.59 |
staircase 1 | 659 | 32 | 6050 | 1.43 |
staircase 2 | 583 | 26 | 5110 | 1.13 |