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13th August 2010, 02:25 | #2381 | Link |
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Dear neuron2,
May I ask if using a GPU with VP4 and 96 cuda cores (say some GT240) or more would bring improvement when using DG NV tools as a HD decoder for x264, over an older GPU with VP2 and some ~30 CUDA cores? If so, what kind of improvement would it be? Thank you for your time. Last edited by crasus; 13th August 2010 at 02:48. |
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The GT240's are the sweet spot for price/performance for NVTools. Not that it really makes that much difference for HD re-encoding because the encoding is the slow part and usually much slower than the decoding using an earlier VP engine. But for HD>SD encodes the newer VP engines are much better but unfortunately they can still hold things back if you do Mpeg4 ASP encodes. |
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13th August 2010, 05:50 | #2383 | Link | |
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Moving from a VP2 to a VP4 has given me a very slight improvement on faster X264 encodes during the first pass (58->60 fps). No difference on the slower (more CPU intensive) second pass. However I imagine that if I swapped my trusty Q6600 for a much faster rig the difference would be greater. |
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13th August 2010, 06:54 | #2384 | Link |
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Definitely. If you had a dual 6 core Xeon system, having a VP4 card would probably help
Regardless, if you have a VP4 card, adding more CUDA cores doesn't add any measurable performance difference. Remember, the decode isn't really happening on the GPU / CUDA cores. It's happening on an ASIC that's on the card (or on the GPU itself, not sure how integrated it is). Derek
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Starting DGIndexNV.exe yields the following error message:
ERROR: cuModuleLoad C:\Program Files\DGDecNV\NV12ToRGB23_sm_20.cubin failed (200) I am using an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M graphis processor in my laptop and the driver version is the latest (4.00.6163) offered by Dell. Searching this tread suggests its a driver issue, is there a different video driver I should be using to be compatible with DGIndexNV or is there some other suggested solution? Thanks |
17th August 2010, 15:06 | #2389 | Link |
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Thanks neuron2 for this amazing tool. I just got myself a license for this and tried it. I must say its just one awesome tool. Just one suggestion to neuron2 for this.
I read the release notes which requires one to disable screen saver/standby when using it. I was wondering if it would be possible to disable the screen saver if it is enabled from the tool. Possibly when the DLL gets loaded like during the initialization stage to disable the screen saver if enabled. During cleanup stage when the DLL gets unloaded after the encode to re-enable screen saver if it was enabled. |
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@echo First prevent from going into Standby! @echo ON powercfg -change -standby-timeout-ac 0 powercfg -change -monitor-timeout-ac 1 do lotsa stuff, including . . . "C:\Program Files (x86)\DGIndexNV\DGIndexNV" -i D:\video\videoIN.%VIDEOTYPE% -o D:\video\videoIN.dgi -e @echo Finished! @echo Return to Standby mode! powercfg -change -standby-timeout-ac 30 powercfg -change -monitor-timeout-ac 10 Last edited by laserfan; 17th August 2010 at 16:44. |
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I do use screen saver but I dont use standby mode in my WinXP PC. When I am using the tool I am currently disabling screen saver and turn off my monitor when the encode is going on. Wouldnt it matter that when the encode is going along one would have to do the same, which is my I thought it would be nice if the tool would do it by itself on load and unload time. Again at the end of the day its neuron2's decision on this.
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18th August 2010, 01:15 | #2395 | Link |
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Is it only the indexing that can be affected by power saving sleep/standby? If so then I don't really see a problem because it doesn't really take that long and I'm usually using the PC at the time anyway.
But while encoding I put my monitor into standby using Wizmo and I haven't noticed any problems. It would be a serious problem if power saving couldn't be used while encoding because it's extremely rare that I use the power switch on my monitor because previous experience has shown that is when my monitor is most likely to fail. It's now out of warranty so avoiding a failure is important. If it's just the screensaver that's the problem then it isn't a problem for me because I never use screensavers, I prefer standby. The readme does state Standby and not just screensaver which is a big problem. Why would something like monitor power saving affect NV Tools? Last edited by RedDwarf1; 18th August 2010 at 01:25. |
18th August 2010, 01:22 | #2396 | Link |
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I don't really know. I added that statement to cover my ***. I doubt that monitor power down or a screensaver could actually be an issue.
Anything that makes the video driver go dead is a problem. For example, Remote Desktop. |
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