CCE giving me 5.33 speeds!!!

[Roveer]

I just finished building my Dual Xeon 2.8ghz 533mhz fsb water cooled monster CCE encoder and was dying to see what cce speed I'd get. Well, here's the result:

http://users.rcn.com/roveer/ccespeed.jpg

I don't currently have enough HD space on the machine to do a whole DVD, and this was just a quick run of 600 megs or so (3 pass). I was expecting 2.x or possibly 3.x I'm completly blown away by this and can't wait to get my bigger hard drive running so I can do a whole DVD. Also, this was reading the VOB across a 100 meg network connection (because I don't have enough disk on the machine yet.

I sure hope these speeds stay where they are, if they do, I'll be very happy.

[madluther]

Nice machine, but you might want to check your mpv file, an encode bitrate of 0.2Mbps suggests there's a problem with the vob -> vfapi -> cce chain, it looks like you might be encoding blank frames. Plus 2210KB file size for 20914 frames is a little small.

Regards Mad.

[waldok]

For blank frames, you could even save some time by encoding only one still frame for the same result

Check your process and be sure this speed corresponds to a real encoding. CBR of 0.2 MBits/s ....hope you have a big HDTV screen to appreciate the result :D

(no offense intended)

Waldok:cool:

[Roveer]

Well, here's some new results.

CCE 2.66 using AVISynth 720x480 NTSC. Settled in around 3.75 or so. Still waiting to look at finished results, but at least the mbps looked normal.

CCE Results (http://users.rcn.com/roveer/cce1.jpg)

Dual Xeon 2.8ghz with HT turned on.

Roveer

[wmansir]

Still pretty damn fast. I'm assuming your doing full D1 resolution also, which makes it more impressive. Have you tried encoding with HT disabled to see the speed difference? That would be really interesting to see.

[madluther]

What version of avisynth, 2.0x or 2.5 ? 2.5 may give higher speed (if you're not using it already)

Mad.

[Roveer]

I'm still gathering information but here's what I know so far.

AVISynth 2.07 (I'm going to look for 2.5 tonight) I was getting a 4.x speed when it first started (CCE 2.66 w/hyperthreading), but that settled back to 3.7x after a while. Still, I'm impressed with the speed.

Working with both CCE 2.66 and 2.5

From what I can see so far the speeds seem to be the best using CCE 2.66 & Avisynth with hyperthreading turned on.

I'm trying CCE 2.5 right now and those speeds seem to be lower (2.7)

I've never used CCE 2.66 before so I'm new to the menus. If your a 2.66 user, I could use some help.

I still don't have the hard drives set up right on this machine (not large enough), but I'll get it straightened out soon enough.

I'll keep posting as I get things worked out.

Edit: I just tried Avisynth 2.5 and I'm getting the following error:

Frame size 820x56 is not supported. Supported frame size is up to 720x576.

I haven't done anything with the video stream. It was smartripped and DVD2AVI'd (no cropping or anything). Any ideas?

[69Mws]

If you're working with mpeg2dec3.dll in your script, maybe you're using the wrong version of mepg2dec3.dll

As far as i know, you need Version 1.0 of mpeg2dec3.dll for Avisynth 2.5

I had the same error, when i tried using Avisynth 2.07 with mpeg2dec3.dll, because i needed Beta6 of mpeg2dec for AVS 2.07

Greetz
69Mws

[Pratticus]

Hmm, thought I would comment on this.

Encoding a single 700Mb .avi without any resizing at CBR, I get rates of 4.75 on a P4B 2.26GHz (OC to 2.82GHz).

Expanding my encoding to VBR and adding resizing to the clip, my speed drops to around 1.80. At stock CPU speed, that number was around 1.4.

Yes, I know OCing is bad for video editing, but I have yet to see any troubles arising from it. ;)

[uteotw]

Rover your machine kicks ass, just for "fun" could you encode a 700mb Divx to MPEG2 using CBR as Pratticus did ? Trying not to go through your LAN. Thx.

uteotw

[Pratticus]

wmansir,

What does "full D1 resolution" mean?

And Roveer,

What version of CCE are you running that gives you the GOP info during encoding? CCE Pro?

[uteotw]

full D1 res = 720x576

[hendrix]

Originally posted by uteotw
full D1 res = 720x576

full D1 = 720x480 for NTSC

[Roveer]

I was able to get avisynth 2.5 to work using a few script commands: killaudio() & ConvertToYUY2. I'm getting speeds between 3.5-4.0 from CCE. I doing the movie "IT" which is 193 minutes and It will take 1.5 hours to do VAF and 3 pas VBR. Compared to my 1.6ghz P4 which will take 1.5 just for the VAF and another 6-7 hours for the 3 pass. I'm really happy with the speed improvement on the new Dual Processor 2.8ghz Xeon that I've built.

Roveer

[sand_f]

Hi...

Can you please give us some more details about your new DuelXeon
Configuration..
Please tell us which motherboard you are using
What type & how much memory your system have..?


Thanks...

[Roveer]

Here are the specs for my dual xeon:

(1) iwill dp533-S motherboard (Dual Xeon 533mhz fsb)
(2) Intel Xeon 2.8ghz 533fsb CPU's
(2) Kingston 512mb DDR ECC memory modules (1gb)
(1) Matrox Parhelia 3 monitor video card
(1) Antec 550 EPS12V Power Supply
(1) Swiftech QuietPower water cooled case
(1) CenDyne DVD/CD drive (Pioneer A03 is on my other machine)
(1) Seagate 10K 18.1gb SCSI drive
(1) Seagate 4GB SCSI
(1) Windows XP Professional

Software:

Smartripper
DVD2AVI 1.76
AVISynth 2.5
CCE 2.66
DVDMaestro
IfoEdit

Hope this helps. Questions? Be advised that the Swiftech 462-U cooling blocks that came with my water cooled case required modification (read 2 hours with the dremmel tool), to allow them to clear the capacitors on the iwill board.

Roveer