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Old 21st August 2006, 15:15   #21  |  Link
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and what's the source, resolution?
i'm trying to convert 1024x768 with HQinsane 4000kb/s and second pass goes 2,8-3,3fps with e6600 @2,7GHz

edit: sorry it was 1000kb/s

4000kb/s is about 2,3fps
If that is too slow for you, then maybe you should not use HQ-Insane. It is named that for a reason.
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Old 21st August 2006, 18:05   #22  |  Link
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If that is too slow for you, then maybe you should not use HQ-Insane. It is named that for a reason.
i don't use it
was just curious about this 4,45fps X2 muscle
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Old 21st August 2006, 18:31   #23  |  Link
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Meh, I expected HQ-Slower to be slow, but not THIS slow. The first pass took about 4 hours. I figured the second pass would take 4 hours as well; maybe slightly longer. I wake up today and see that 5 hours have elapsed for second pass and 10 hours are remaining!!! I immediately stopped the process. It's okay when this is taking place while I'm asleep but I don't want my cpu getting buggered all during the day time, too

Is there a way to get good results without taking this much time? Even rebuilding DVDs wit DVD Rebuilder and CCE + 3 passes only took me about 4 hours total. I've got like 25 movies I still want to reencode.

P.S. this is on a Pentium 4 2.4GHz; 512MB of RAM. Not the fastest computer in the world, but still. I figured if CCE could do it in 4 hours with excellent quality then x264 could do it in about that time.

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Old 21st August 2006, 18:50   #24  |  Link
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Use a faster profile. x264 doesn't need --subme 7 --me umh --b-rdo -r 16 to look good.

Comparing MPEG2 with H264 concerning speed is useless. Of course any normal MPEG2 encoder will be much faster. There's about 10 years difference in technology. (Remember what kind of CPU you had 10 years ago )

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Old 21st August 2006, 18:58   #25  |  Link
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Ten years ago... Maybe a Pentium 2 233MHz.

"Faster profile" well I just see so many. I'm going for the best compromise between quality and my sanity; ie the best looking video I can get for under 8 hours of encoding time. Do you have a suggestion?

But then again obviously if the profiles I use don't do me much better than xvid then there's no reason to be using x264 and trying to be hip and stuff. I was just very keen on x264 because the result looks damn near like the DVD; at least the sample I got from a friend did.

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Old 21st August 2006, 19:04   #26  |  Link
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problem is...well...15hrs etc. encoding time i could MAYBE live with....if there were a proper way to PAUSE an encoding.
But there is not. Which is a problem
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Old 21st August 2006, 19:06   #27  |  Link
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Use a faster profile. x264 doesn't need --subme 7 --me umh --b-rdo -r 16 to look good.
CE-highprofile ?

Which one ? Not that fast either....

People always also say "do two passes...maybe more".....so what would be a good profile for every-day use/viewing of NON HDTV movies ?
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Old 21st August 2006, 19:09   #28  |  Link
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problem is...well...15hrs etc. encoding time i could MAYBE live with....if there were a proper way to PAUSE an encoding.
But there is not. Which is a problem
That would certainly help; especially if there was a safe way to do it like pause it and close MeGUI and come back to it whenever.
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Old 21st August 2006, 19:13   #29  |  Link
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4fps eh, try 0.5fps for size.... On a athlon 64 3000+ s754.
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Old 21st August 2006, 19:22   #30  |  Link
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(Why would you even bother, then?)
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Old 21st August 2006, 19:43   #31  |  Link
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For using the computer while you encode, just set the x264 priority to below normal or even lower if that is not enough. If for some reason you really need to pause it, even tho i never tried it, i think SysInternals PSSuspend is made for that. However, since i doubt you can turn off the computer and still resume, there is no real gain over simply lowering the process priority.
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Old 21st August 2006, 19:59   #32  |  Link
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Faster profile" well I just see so many. I'm going for the best compromise between quality and my sanity; ie the best looking video I can get for under 8 hours of encoding time. Do you have a suggestion?
I don't know the profiles that MeGUI uses well enough. I'm sorry. It always puzzles me that someone picks the profile that is called slow or slower and than is amazed it actually is slow. Is there nothing called XX-fast? Or perhaps even XX-normal? (And if not, why not?)

Of course for the higher bitrate range, XviD is a valid alternative too.
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Coz if you want a fast encoding you should use xvid instead :P
Also if you want faster profiles, just dont use HQ ones...
speed and quality are opposite words...

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Old 21st August 2006, 20:12   #34  |  Link
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HQslow profile has got quite good speed in my opinion
coming from tbred system
2 hours first pass (24fps) + 9fps is about 6 hours of second pass
but the default should give quite balanced result in terms of quality and speed
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I don't know the profiles that MeGUI uses well enough. I'm sorry. It always puzzles me that someone picks the profile that is called slow or slower and than is amazed it actually is slow.
Well, "slow" is rather arbitrary. 8 hours encoding is slow, but 20+ hours is just... Ridiculous.
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I got a question: Is bitrate significant to the speed? I was trying to encode with a bitrate of 1700~ kbps (3CD); is that what slowed me down so much?
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It depends on the options, but 800kbps might be 25% faster than 1600kbps.
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You lot are wingers, really! I've got a Celeron 800 MHz, and I do a regular encode of some games footage. It's not longer than about 1500 to 2000 frames usually, and it takes 2 hours to do 2 passes in x264, at 1500 kbps. 1500 to 2000 frames is anywhere between 70 and 90 seconds. In XviD, I can have both passes done within 20-30 minutes. That's with all the high quality settings too in both codecs, yet x264 looks miles better, even with XviD or ffdshow's post-processing!
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Old 22nd August 2006, 01:22   #39  |  Link
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I am running the HQ-Insane (modified to support 2 threads) on an AMD X2 processor.

1 pass was: encoded 8138 frames, 24.40 fps, 1014.40 kb/s
2 pass is now at 4,45 fps

Is this normal?
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and what's the source, resolution?
i'm trying to convert 1024x768 with HQinsane 4000kb/s and second pass goes 2,8-3,3fps with e6600 @2,7GHz

edit: sorry it was 1000kb/s

4000kb/s is about 2,3fps
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n3r0, welcome to the real world performance...
What do you mean ? Do you say, that the Conroe CPU sucks for x264 encoding ?

Does the integrated memory controller of the AMD X2 CPU make a big difference here ?
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No, it doesnt suck, it's a monster CPU, but the AMD multicore implementation just shines with x264 partially because of faster MMX but also coz of the architecture (the Conroe shared cache is good but not as good as the crossbar switch).
Maybe optimizing the code for Conroe will just make it faster.
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