Single thread vs multithread in terms of speed

[plonk420]

shouldn't roozhou's theory be gone about in the opposite direction, a la HydrogenAudio's ABX rule? if he can present a scenario that he can ABX within 99% of perceivable degredation, THEN there's something to look at?

seconded @ the 16core porn. i want an i7 soooooo bad.. but, even without considering my personal finances, i want to know for SURE that X58 will support 6core/12thread i7s before i take the leap...

[Sagekilla]

You know when you're an x264 junkie when you consider 16 core rigs hot ;) (I'm poking fun at myself here too, for the record).

In all seriousness though, I have a little bit of an idea that would involve writing a script to pass off 2 sets of parameters to x264 that are randomly picked from some predefined params (One for threads 1, another for 16). Of course, it would write to a separate file which one is which but you should view each video in full to pick which one is better, then check which one was encoded with what settings.

I may actually do this out of boredom.

[Chengbin]

You know there are people under 18 that are on this forum right (I'm one of them).

But yes, that 16 core rig is dope. I need a 16 core rig. My quad is too slow for insane setting x264 encoding that I'm doing.

I'm really becoming an x264 junkie! I'm actually "addicted" to x264. I can't stop going on this forum everyday.

[Sagekilla]

Oh boy, if you think that's slow try running an ancient Athlon 64 X2 @ 2 GHz. HD + prefiltering = 2 - 3 day encoding :(