CCE and DVD-Rebuilder Pro

[August59]

What version of CCE works the most stable with DVD-RB Pro 1.28.2? CCE SP or CCE SP2? I'm sure there is a version number on the SP or SP2? Thanks very much ahead of time for any help.

I'm using a Dell E6520 with i7-2720QM processor with 4GB of RAM. Currently running Win7 32-bit, but getting ready to change to Win 7 64-bit if it is worth it.

Thanks ahead of time for any advice and/or feedback!

[steptoe]

Both CCESP and CCECP2 work fine with DVD-RB Pro, if you are using CCESP2 make sure you select what version of CCE you are using under the CCE Settings menu option

If you want a free alternative, that in my opinion and a lot of others opinion is better, have a look at HCEnc. You can use the last beta 0.26 by simple renaming it to HCbatch.exe and copy it over the original, it works fine as I now use it over CCE/CCESP2

Then change mode to HCEnc and thats about it

I personally disable HCEnc multi-threading as I want to use my system for other things while its encoding, as HCEnc WILL take over your entire system and use as many resources as it can grab regardless how fast your system is, which make for faster encodes but also means you can't really do much while its encoding, CCESP/CCESP2 don't seem very keen on using all your resources though


As for upgrading to 64-bit, do it. DVD-RB runs fine and 64-bit OS is definately faster than 32-bit and 64-bit driver support is much better than it used to be

I've recently upgraded mine from my old Q6600 4GB to an Intel i5 overclocked to 4.5ghz with 16GB of RAM (as I use huge images with PhotoShop which ran out of memory if I wasn't careful and reduced the size of my images before editing) and its at least double the speed of my older system (which wasn't a slouch but this screams along)

I notice you are using core i7, which in tests is faster still than an overclocked Core i5 where video work was involved, but I'd advise you to upgrade to a minimum of 8GB of RAM if possible, you will notice the difference and gives Windoze plenty of spare as a 'measly' 4GB is just about used up, ahhhh I remember my Amiga with its huge 1MB of memory I upgrade to 2MB .........


I used to get an average of 120FPS using HCEnc running without using the multi-encoder option of HCEnc which I thought was pretty damn quick, I now get an average of 380-430FPS so you should get more as the Core i7 is much better for video work

This is without using any avisynth filters, some of which will seriously cripple your framerates but are worth the wait, especially if you do manga work which have very poor sources even from alleged commercial quality DVD