For High Quality & Speed : x264 multithread in render farm

[0gg]

.... so, too many post I read : I'm lost !!

I have :

2x Xeon Clovertown 5330 2,13 @ 2,9 watercooled
4x1 Go Ram Pc667 FBDIMM
Maxtor 146 Go SAS 15 000 Trs
GeForce 8800GTS 640 watercooled
Gigabit Ethernet
and

2x Xeon Clovertown 5340 2,4
2x1 Go Ram Pc667 FBDIMM
Wester Digital Raptor 36 Go SATA 10 000 Trs
GeForce 8600GT 320
Gigabit Ethernet


What GUI, option, version, encoder, script .... do I need to optimise quality & speed in x264 from quicktime (.mov in SD with DV Codec or HD with Avid DNxHD codec) sources ?

Regards

[Hellworm]

Well then go ahead and read more :devil:!

All programs using x264 will give you same quality and speed so the question is more what GUI, script ... you want to use to simplify encoding.

On Windows you can use avisynth in x264 so you can call x264 directly. To the question of which options do what you can have a list of options when you execute "x264 --help". Personally I found the mplayer man page (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html#CODEC SPECIFIC ENCODING OPTIONS (MENCODER ONLY)) pretty usefull(scroll down until you get to x264enc).