Encoding performance?

[dvdpunk81]

What kind of performance to you guys get on your system with various codecs, settings and such? If you could basically say what your average encoding fps w/ settings, codec and what your hardware is that would be great.

I'm getting my new system on Friday and want to get an idea of what to expected performance wise. BTW, it's a dual 2.8 GHz Xeon w/ 1GB PC800.

Also, does hard drive speed have a big impact on encoding performance?

[Emp3r0r]

I have a p4 2.26ghz with 256 PC3000 RAM slightly overclocked to 2.72ghz and I get the following:F:\DVD\PANICR~1>avs2avi panicroom.avs panicdx50.avi -q -s dx50.txt

AVS2AVI v1.12 (c) 2002 Christophe PARIS (christophe.paris@free.fr)
Contributions by: int21h

Thanks to Avery Lee author of VirtualDub and Chia-chen Kuo author
of DVD2AVI for providing great source code of inspiration.

Source:
* Filename: panicroom.avs
* Bit depth: 12
* FOURCC: YV12
* Frames: 161046
* Resolution: 640x272
Compressor:
* Name: DivX Pro 5.0.2 Codec
* FOURCC: DIVX
Destination:
* Filename: panicdx50.avi

* Frames: 513
* Key frames: 4
* Size: 1.600MB
Pass 1/1, compression time 00:00:21.336 (24.04fps).

F:\DVD\PANICR~1>avs2avi panicroom.avs panicxvid.avi -q -s xvid.txt

AVS2AVI v1.12 (c) 2002 Christophe PARIS (christophe.paris@free.fr)
Contributions by: int21h

Thanks to Avery Lee author of VirtualDub and Chia-chen Kuo author
of DVD2AVI for providing great source code of inspiration.

Source:
* Filename: panicroom.avs
* Bit depth: 12
* FOURCC: YV12
* Frames: 161046
* Resolution: 640x272
Compressor:
* Name: XviD MPEG-4 Codec
* FOURCC: XVID
Destination:
* Filename: panicxvid.avi

* Frames: 359
* Key frames: 3
* Size: 1.407MB
Pass 1/1, compression time 00:00:09.617 (37.33fps).

It isn't a very fair comparison because I had gmc, bframes and qpel enabled in divx 5 and I only had qpel enabled in xvid which is koepi's latest. Also, I was using my machine during the xvid encode but not during the divx encode. The avs script I used is below:LoadPlugin("E:\Program Files\Avisynth2\plugins\mpeg2dec3 YV12.dll")
source=mpeg2source("F:\DVD\Panic Room\panicroom.d2v").crop(1,56,-1,-62)
source=source.LanczosResize(640,272)
return source.freezeframe(0,0,1368)

# target size: 731 MB, 748485 KB, 913 kbps
# creditsA: start=0 end=0
# creditsB: start=155909 end=161046

PS: the fps numbers ARE correct despite the frames, time and size errors

[Emp3r0r]

hard drive speed doesn't matter on encoding performace yet a scsi controller will take up less CPU than a IDE controller

[N_F]

Computer: Athlon 1,3 GHz, 256 MB RAM, XP

I recently did Gladiator with the following settings:

640*272
B-frames (no other expert settings)
Neutral Bicubic
Forced Film

first-pass: ~18 fps
second-pass: ~22 fps


Just for comparison, for 4:3 movies I usually get ~13 fps/~15 fps.