Problem with HC 0.20 and Happy Feet

[on30trainman]

I just finished running Happy Feet (movie only) using the latest DVDRB (1.24) and HC 0.20. Output DVD was unviewable on two standalone players and also the computer. Big blocks throughout the picture from beginning to end. The output VOBs and the .ISO file (from Img Tools) also show these blocks. Previously ran it with CCE Basic (on slightly earlier version of DVDRB) and the output DVD was fine. Just wanted to give HC 0.20 a try - had troubles previously with HC crashing until I recently read a post about making sure "Run Encoder Minimized" was unchecked. No crashes this time - just unviewable output. Used the default values for the encoder. Initially was quite happy with the encoding times with HC - always remembered it taking about twice as long as CCE Basic - back in the early days of DVDRB when I was able to get HC to run without crashing. This time it took about 1.5 times the CCE encode on my Athlon XP3000+.
Anyone have any thoughts? If not, back to CCE Basic - probably would go back to it anyways - thought HC would give me a chance to play with matrices on certain movies.

Steve W.

[hank315]

The current HC020 has an error if:
- normal profile is used
- the CPU can do MMX only

It was reported earlier: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=965073#post965073

Workaround: use fast or best profile only in this case.
For SSE2 capable CPU's all profiles are OK.

There will be an update soon...

[Rippraff]

Hi Hank,

what I don't understand (and haven't one month ago ;)), you're talking aboutThe current HC020 has an error if:
- normal profile is used
- the CPU can do MMX only
but both Nomolu's and on30trainman's CPU have SSE capabilities not only MMX. :confused:

Cu Rippraff

[on30trainman]

Hank,
Thanks for the quick reply. I did see that thread but missed the significance of the point that one particular post had. Will be looking for the update. Also, will try one of the other settings tomorrow when I have some time.

Steve W.

[hank315]

Hi Rippraff,

but both Nomolu's and on30trainman's CPU have SSE capabilities not only MMX.
Yes, they have SSE capabilities but they don't have SSE2 extensions.
MMX/SSE uses 64 bit registers (mmx registers), SSE2 and higher extensions uses 128 bit registers (xmm registers).
These are handled by different routines in HC, one of the MMX/SSE routines has an error using normal profile which will cause the blocks.

[Rippraff]

Thanks for the reply, Hank.
So the limitation is whether the cpu is capable of SSE2 or not.

Cu Rippraff