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Old 23rd July 2016, 04:40   #4021  |  Link
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@divxmaster: Thanks for sharing your experience with pre-sharpening. I've browsed the complete list of AviSynth sharpening plugins/scripts, and will test some to see the results on both sharpening and resulting bitrate (whether image complexity increases as well). For now, "adaptive" sharpening seems to me as the most appropriate direction to go. I've started using Lanczos4resize which improves sharpness (though it introduces halo as well, unlike Lanczos3). Also, decreased deblock from -1 to -2, and am currently testing -3 as image quality improved after I discarded qg size 16 parameter and artifacts stopped "accumulating" in smaller image blocks containing sharp, pronounced details where they were overly visible.

I compress using modified "slower" profile - me star, subme 7, rd 6, ref 6, bframes 9, aq-mode 2/strength 2, psy rd 2, psy rdoq 1, no rskip, rect, no sao, no strong intra smoothing. Speedup options are limit modes, limit refs 3, no weightb, no amp, max merge 2.
@gamebox, have you tried using vapoursynth64 instead of avisynth? its much faster. sharpening options seem limited though. Best seems to be awarpsharp2, but this is the only dll I cannot get to work at all in vapoursynth. off to the forums I suppose. back on topic, I see you use bframes 9, I seem to remember reading anything over 5 is pointless. this may have changed.
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The 32-bit version hangs. It was reported some time ago https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/...-x265-hangs-at

Solution for 32-bit GCC 6.1:
Is this an issue for GCC 5.3 too?

x265 2.0+9-2737c6ff5f80 was built with an older MSYS/MinGW package by XhmikosR.
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Old 23rd July 2016, 08:05   #4023  |  Link
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Is this an issue for GCC 5.3 too?

x265 2.0+9-2737c6ff5f80 was built with an older MSYS/MinGW package by XhmikosR.
GCC 5.3 works OK. The problem is with stack alignment. In Windows and ancient CPU the stack alignment was 4 which is too small for SSE2 functions. GCC needs to analyze code and realign the stack in functions that calls SSE2 functions -- GCC 6.1 works wrong in this area.

If I add option '-mincoming-stack-boundary=2' to encoder/slicetype.cpp in 32-bit GCC 6.1, it works without '-march' option. I need some time to detailed analyze...

By the way, if you add line in your build script:
export CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mtune=generic"
before part that build 32-bit x265, it will be much faster version of 32-bit x265.
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Old 23rd July 2016, 09:00   #4024  |  Link
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@divxmaster: Using more than 6 B-frames indeed gives little benefit, in my experience only about 2-3% of B-frame "rows" contain 7 frames, for example. But, I also haven't noticed any significant speedup reducing B-frame count to 6, and that's the reason I kept it at 9 - for medium/low bitrate encoding any improvement counts.

I've tested many sharpening filters yesterday and discarded Adaptive Sharpen, as it smooths out less pronounced details slightly. The best combination I've come up is Sharpen (AviSynth built-in filter) at value 0.2, followed by Msharpen at threshold 10 and strength 20. For the time being, performance of AviSynth is not an issue as my new octo-core AMD FX CPU "Bulldozes" through data quite nicely.
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Hey,

somebody got a hint for me how to reduce the seek time in VLC?
I'm using Staxrip, x265 Main10 with OpenGOP deactivated. (No other settings)
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Old 23rd July 2016, 10:59   #4026  |  Link
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tried vlc nightly? tried mkv as container?
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Old 23rd July 2016, 11:50   #4027  |  Link
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tried vlc nightly? tried mkv as container?
Hey Selur,

I didn't try the VLC Nightly yet. Though neither MKV, MP4 nor using Handbrake instead of Staxrip seemed to make a real difference.
The only thing that helped was deactivating OpenGOP... But I still got seek times of roundabout 5sec with a 1080p video on my Xeon 1241v3.
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Old 23rd July 2016, 12:06   #4028  |  Link
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Hey Selur,

I didn't try the VLC Nightly yet. Though neither MKV, MP4 nor using Handbrake instead of Staxrip seemed to make a real difference.
The only thing that helped was deactivating OpenGOP... But I still got seek times of roundabout 5sec with a 1080p video on my Xeon 1241v3.
Have you tried lowering the keyframe value during encoding?
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The only thing that helped was deactivating OpenGOP...
I thought you already had it deactivated, since you wrote:
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I'm using Staxrip, x265 Main10 with OpenGOP deactivated. (No other settings)
-> try the nightly, it should work with opengop deactivated.
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-> try the nightly, it should work with opengop deactivated.
and activated. It always worked with deactivated.

Make sure StaxRip isn't outdated, older mp4box had some nasty bugs.
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--keyint 150

This shall help you with the seek time

ps, try MPC-HC 64bit. Currently LAV 64bit is the most efficient decoder.

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Ahh... thx guys.

The VLC Nightly helped... as did the --keyint 150 parameter.


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I thought you already had it deactivated, since you wrote:
I had it activated... I was just still not happy with the result.
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To whom this may interest:

I've decided to share my new (MSYS2-based) MinGW_w64 toolchain.
The directory includes CMake, Git and Mercurial.

https://www.mediafire.com/?3ib29yauv5kdw

NOTICE:

when calling the .SH scripts, you (may) need to add a ./ to the command-line —

for example, "./multi64.sh" instead of simply "multi64.sh".

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the GCC 6.1.0 x64 build of 2.0+9 seems to be much faster than GCC 5.3.0 x64.
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Hard to believe if >90% of the relevant code is in assembler, optimized for several different levels of supported instruction set extensions. Without details and numbers, "much faster" won't mean anything.
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Old 26th July 2016, 07:50   #4036  |  Link
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Command:
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--crf 20 --output-depth 10 --level-idc 5.1 --cbqpoffs -3 --min-keyint 23 --keyint 240 --no-open-gop --colorprim bt709 --colormatrix bt709 --transfer bt709 --rskip --crqpoffs -3 --high-tier
GCC 5.3.0 - 9.82fps average
GCC 6.1.0 - 12.28fps average

Movie - Batman v Superman.

The rest is the same: StaxRip, DirectShowSource, LAV filters CPU decoding, Core i7-4790K CPU, 8GB RAM, Windows 7 x64.

OK... taking back..... Now realised,that I haven't turned on --me star, like with GCC 5.3.0. Running new test.

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Wow... and which CPU, which instruction sets reportedly used?
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Old 26th July 2016, 08:02   #4038  |  Link
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LigH, as i wrote...running new test with --me star, as wih GCC 5.3.0... So will report new speed then.

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x265 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX AVX2 FMA3 LZCNT BMI2
PS: What is the benefit os ME STAR over default ME in MEDIUM?
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The search for motion vectors in different ME modes is more or less exhaustive; "star" will probably prefer vertical and horizontal directions, but won't search as far in diagonal directions, I believe. I never saw descriptive diagrams yet, though... But fewer directions means faster speed, obviously.
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XhmikosR recently released an MSYS / MinGW / GCC 6.1.0 package (2016-07-08); so I built x265 binaries for you to cross-compare compilers and linking types of mostly the same generic options, just including the pentium4/generic flag pair Ma suggested for Win32 builds (at least I hope I did it right, please check).

x265 2.0+10-5a0e139e2938 (GCC 5.3.0)
x265 2.0+10-5a0e139e2938 (GCC 6.1.0)
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