Current Patches, Where to get them, How they affect speed/output - Page 41

kemuri-_9 · 27th August 2008, 04:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ranguvar

So, march=athlon should be the best choice for AMD, as it works with both of those but doesn't require much else

confirmed

pentium2 (for ez link access)
AMD Series:
k6, k6-2, athlon

k6 was slow to p2.
k6-2 was better, but still slower than p2.
athlon was where it hit faster than p2 on a nearly consistent basis.

Ranguvar · 27th August 2008, 05:24

http://sites.google.com/site/ranguvar13/x264-builds

Direct download, Mirrors

Code:

x264 r950 from Git (patched).

Open this archive with the free, multi-platform tools 7-Zip or p7zip. Compressed with LZMA.
The src folder contains the patched source code.
The bin folder contains a binary executable for Athlon and later AMD CPUs (those with 3DNow! and 3DNow!+ support), 
and one for those without. There are also DLLs for those apps that use them (NOT for AviDemux).

Official source and vanilla builds:      http://x264.nl/
Changelog:                               http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi?p=x264.git;a=shortlog
Patches and discussion at Doom9's forum: http://forum.doom9.org/


Applied patches (included, unchanged, in the patches folder):

patch -p1 < ../x264diffs/x264_dll_alignment_fix.01.diff
patch <     ../x264diffs/x264.progress.indication.01.diff
patch -p1 < ../x264diffs/x264_hrd_pulldown.09_interlace.diff
patch -p1 < ../x264diffs/x264-psyrd-0.6.r950.diff
patch -p1 < ../x264diffs/x264.new.bframes.decision.04.5.diff


Compiled by Ranguvar on August 27th, 2008, with GCC 4.3.1 on Windows XP Professional x64 SP2.

CLI used for non-AMD build: ./configure --enable-shared --extra-cflags="-march=pentium2 -pipe" && make fprofiled VIDS="../enctests/deadline_cif.y4m"
CLI used for AMD build:     ./configure --enable-shared --extra-cflags="-march=athlon -pipe" && make fprofiled VIDS="../enctests/deadline_cif.y4m"

Platform:   X86
System:     MINGW
asm:        yes
avis input: yes
mp4 output: yes
pthread:    yes
gtk:        no
debug:      no
gprof:      no
PIC:        no
shared:     yes
visualize:  no

Ranguvar · 27th August 2008, 05:28

Thanks, kemuri, for the continued research!

gigah72 · 27th August 2008, 05:28

ot:
where can i get the needed package/tools to add the version info to the build?
or can someone upload the needed files?

Ranguvar · 27th August 2008, 05:31

Kemuri, I believe, posted the list of stuff needed a while back. Find that and then use Google. First search with "mingw" added to see if there's a binary out there, otherwise, compile from source.

Hint: I believe everything you need is on the MinGW Sourceforge page, except for Git, which can be found by installing msysgit and then grabbing its stuff. Doing a ./configure will tell you if you're missing something.

bob0r · 27th August 2008, 05:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ranguvar

bob0r, skystrife, may I ask how you are compiling the DLL? I know how to do it, but x264 seems to need some modifications before the DLL will work in AviDemux. Is that exactly what you have done?

My .dll has no modifications, other than the patches themself.
Compared to the GIT-code.

kemuri-_9 · 27th August 2008, 05:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by kemuri-_9

if the build doesn't include the revision number which it's automatically configured to do on compilation, then it doesn't have access to some CLI utils:
GIT CLI : git-rev-list, git-status
binutils: awk (usually via gawk or mawk), grep, head, join, sed, sort, wc
be sure these binaries are on the PATH environment variable or it won't be able to include the revision number within the build.

many of these are part of Msys:
https://sourceforge.net/project/show...ckage_id=24963
coreutils package: head, join, sort, wc
msysCORE package: sed
gawk package: awk (via gawk)

the GIT CLI i have via msysgit:
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list
msysgit has LOTS of stuff in it besides just git cli binaries as well...
as it can fully create a working bash shell to for cli usage if you don't want to use the gui and don't want to have it in your windows PATH variable to use within the command prompt.
in fact msysgit comes with awk (via gawk), grep, head, sed, sort, wc (only missing join for needed purposes)

Ranguvar · 27th August 2008, 05:52

@bob0r: OK, so your DLL is b0rked, too... read back a few pages

gigah72 · 27th August 2008, 06:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by kemuri-_9

many of these are part of Msys:
https://sourceforge.net/project/show...ckage_id=24963
coreutils package: head, join, sort, wc
msysCORE package: sed
gawk package: awk (via gawk)

the GIT CLI i have via msysgit:
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list
msysgit has LOTS of stuff in it besides just git cli binaries as well...
as it can fully create a working bash shell to for cli usage if you don't want to use the gui and don't want to have it in your windows PATH variable to use within the command prompt.
in fact msysgit comes with awk (via gawk), grep, head, sed, sort, wc (only missing join for needed purposes)

thanks,
i put all the files together, but now this:
fatal: Not a git repository

any idea what's wrong in the setup?

Ranguvar · 27th August 2008, 06:09

@gigah72: You need to download x264 from Git, and make sure not to delete the .git folder in the downloaded files. (git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git)

@all: r950 was b0rked until now, only use binaries compiled after this post...

Dark Shikari · 27th August 2008, 06:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ranguvar

Warning to all: r950 was b0rked until now, only use binaries compiled after this post...

Correct, I made a typo in the commit and modified history in order to fix it. You'll have to re-update your sources and recompile.

Ranguvar · 27th August 2008, 06:21

http://sites.google.com/site/ranguvar13/x264-builds

Direct download, Mirrors

Code:

x264 r950 (NON-B0RKED VERSION) from Git (patched).

Open this archive with the free, multi-platform tools 7-Zip or p7zip. Compressed with LZMA.
The src folder contains the patched source code.
The bin folder contains a binary executable for Athlon and later AMD CPUs (those with 3DNow! and 3DNow!+ support), 
and one for those without. There are also DLLs for those apps that use them (NOT for AviDemux).

Official source and vanilla builds:      http://x264.nl/
Changelog:                               http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi?p=x264.git;a=shortlog
Patches and discussion at Doom9's forum: http://forum.doom9.org/


Applied patches (included, unchanged, in the patches folder):

patch -p1 < ../x264diffs/x264_dll_alignment_fix.01.diff
patch <     ../x264diffs/x264.progress.indication.01.diff
patch -p1 < ../x264diffs/x264_hrd_pulldown.09_interlace.diff
patch -p1 < ../x264diffs/x264-psyrd-0.6.r950.diff
patch -p1 < ../x264diffs/x264.new.bframes.decision.04.5.diff


Compiled by Ranguvar on August 27th, 2008, with GCC 4.3.1 on Windows XP Professional x64 SP2.

CLI used for non-AMD build: ./configure --enable-shared --extra-cflags="-march=pentium2 -pipe" && make fprofiled VIDS="../enctests/deadline_cif.y4m"
CLI used for AMD build:     ./configure --enable-shared --extra-cflags="-march=athlon -pipe" && make fprofiled VIDS="../enctests/deadline_cif.y4m"

Platform:   X86
System:     MINGW
asm:        yes
avis input: yes
mp4 output: yes
pthread:    yes
gtk:        no
debug:      no
gprof:      no
PIC:        no
shared:     yes
visualize:  no

egrimisu · 27th August 2008, 08:37

hi where can i get the latest and a good one x264 encoder with psyrdo 0.6?

alfadude · 27th August 2008, 08:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by egrimisu

hi where can i get the latest and a good one x264 encoder with psyrdo 0.6?

In this thread only a few posts back.

egrimisu · 27th August 2008, 09:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by alfadude

In this thread only a few posts back.

and who's build would you recomad?

alfadude · 27th August 2008, 09:12

Skystrife builds them to my satisfaction. :-)

egrimisu · 27th August 2008, 09:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by alfadude

Skystrife builds them to my satisfaction. :-)

is there a optimized version for core2duo?

is renguvar release better than hte one you like? i saw that your preferd one's latest version has some bframa i don't know what in experimental mode!!!

alfadude · 27th August 2008, 09:32

Try it and you will see which one you like best.

The new bframes method is slow when used with many bframes but as standard all builds still use the old method. If you want to test the new method put --b-adapt 2 in your command line.

This is not new information, it was all already answered for those who like to read.

akupenguin · 27th August 2008, 09:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ranguvar

I'm gonna guess that if march=k8 is faster on AMD CPU's, it's because of the 3dNOW! and 3dNOW!+.

gcc doesn't use 3dnow nor mmx, not even if -march / -mmmx / -m3dnow allow it. (The rationale is that using mmregs requires emms and gcc is too stupid to figure out where to put emms.) This statement applies not only to autovectorization, but even to generic vector intrinsics (__attribute__((vector_size))). Only explicit 3dnow intrinsics use 3dnow.

Sharktooth · 27th August 2008, 12:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by egrimisu

is there a optimized version for core2duo?

is renguvar release better than hte one you like? i saw that your preferd one's latest version has some bframa i don't know what in experimental mode!!!

here we go... again...get a generic build.

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Ranguvar Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: ::1 Posts: 1,236	Kemuri, I believe, posted the list of stuff needed a while back. Find that and then use Google. First search with "mingw" added to see if there's a binary out there, otherwise, compile from source. Hint: I believe everything you need is on the MinGW Sourceforge page, except for Git, which can be found by installing msysgit and then grabbing its stuff. Doing a ./configure will tell you if you're missing something.

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Ranguvar Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: ::1 Posts: 1,236	@bob0r: OK, so your DLL is b0rked, too... read back a few pages

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Ranguvar Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: ::1 Posts: 1,236	@gigah72: You need to download x264 from Git, and make sure not to delete the .git folder in the downloaded files. (git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git) @all: r950 was b0rked until now, only use binaries compiled after this post...

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alfadude Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 14	Skystrife builds them to my satisfaction. :-)

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alfadude Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 14	Try it and you will see which one you like best. The new bframes method is slow when used with many bframes but as standard all builds still use the old method. If you want to test the new method put --b-adapt 2 in your command line. This is not new information, it was all already answered for those who like to read.