Instant copy8 speeds

[rolandb5]

My speed of encoding lies between the 600 and 400 kb a sec. I have the feeling this is too low.

Does the encoding speed only depend on your processor? I've got an Athlon XP 1333 Mhz. Or is this speed normal with this processor?

What are your speeds? And which processor do you use?

[mb1]

That is no encoding speed. That is HD speed.
It is best to use different HDs for source and target (or Raid).

[rolandb5]

Weird, I have the latest 80 GB Maxtor with liquid bearing and 8 mb cache...
Wouldn't that be good?

Actually... it must be encoding speed, cause when I choose not to encode (setting the % on 100) I get 8 mb a sec speeds

[mb1]

You misunderstood. That is not really your hd speed. It is the speed the source material is read at the moment. Then it is transcoded (with different intensity) and it will be written to the same hd (in your case).

You can achieve max speed if you don't decrease original video sizes (set all sliders to 100%). So material will only be copied from a to b.

And again, working with two hds will significantly be faster.

[jippiejajee]

don't think problem is HD. If I read/write a file for instance producing an edited video file, even using one hard disk transmission speed is between 7 and 15 MB/s. Must be something else. If you have XP open task manager (righ click on task bar) and look if CPU is fully loaded or not. Probable you will find that it is fully loaded, in processes tab you can see which application is consuming your CPU capacity

[OsirisMedia01]

P4 2.43GHZ
512 Ram
80&40G 7200 Western Digitals

I use different source/dest
and all I can get is 700 - 1mb

[Fmazzanti]

Guys,
my XP1800+ delivers transcoding speeds of around 1.35Mb/sec average. I usually go from my hdd to the same hdd. Of course, making it 100% (no compression) runs MUCH faster...

[jippiejajee]

my p4 2.4 MHZ 533 fsb 512MB PC2700 gives vales between 1.6 and 1.8 MB/s. Be sure no significant CPU time is used for programs in background

[mpucoder]

Very important to check for background tasks - bring up the task manager and look, don't just assume. One big CPU killer is RealPlayer RealMedia, etc - anything Real will start itself up with Windows (even if you hunt it down and remove startup menu and registry entries. Next time you use it, it reasserts itself)
Clean your machine with AdAware, phoning home eats cycles.

[TonyDaTigger]

Originally posted by mb1
That is no encoding speed. That is HD speed.
It is best to use different HDs for source and target (or Raid).

I am currently running an Athlon XP2000 with 512 MB (soon to be 1 gb) of Corsair XMS PC2700 DDR memory. My hard drive is 3 Western Digital 80 gig drives (8 meg caches) is running in a Raid 5 configuration (Promise SX4000). Instant Copy runs at about 800k/s to 1.4 for encoding movies and around 7 m/b if there is no encoding.

Clearly, my hd access time/disk io is quicker then most setup's out there but I'm still not getting times much different then what other people are getting.
If I were to put in another HD (seperate of array) you are saying that my processing time would increase? If so, by how much?

[padre]

I just configured a new machine with:

ASUS P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard
Pentium 4 3.06ghz CPU (533FSB)
1gb PC3200 Corsair XMS memory
2-200gb Maxtor 7200rpm drives (ATA100)
Windows XP (required for HyperThreading support)

I'm getting anywhere from 1.60MB/s to 2.25MB/s encoding speeds. I read from one HD, and write to the other for IC.

[MackemX]

InstantCopy 8? :), I nearly had a heart attack there thinking Pinnacle had released actually released a brand new version cos I musta missed this thread 1st time round :D

are all you guys getting over say 1.2 minimum using the latest version 7.02?

I got nice high speeds before of around 1.5-2.2 but now I struggle to peak over 1.4 using version 7.02 and I noticed this immediately after installing the update

I still get nice speeds of 18MB/s if I transfer at 100% so obviously HD speed ain't an issue

a few people have noticed that running version 7.02 is significantly slower than the previous versions

I always thought it was down to the reg settings etc cos nothing has changed on my computer and I have no doubt if I reinstalled 7.01 I would get my speeds back just as jippejajee has reported HERE (http://webboard.pinnaclesys.com/read_messages.asp?WebboardID=1&ForumID=877&SectionID=170&ThreadID=138894&ThreadStart=0&Pos=0&cntThread=212&lng=1)

I do notice that some DVD's work faster than others and also peak in certain parts of the DVD also but haven't really took much notice to see why. It's probably the bitrate that affects the speed with IC so it works faster or slower during processing cos when I did my small blank DVD's for Pinnacle the speeds I got during processing were really slow at around 300kb/s :D, cos the original bitrate was consistantly low or high (can't remember which tho but I'll have a look). I think they were high

[jippiejajee]

Hi Padre,
which version of IC7 are you using ?
Did you notice a difference between version 119 and 114 ?

thx Jippie

[MackemX]

I have just found out that it's running very slow at 365kb/s when processing a constant image of constant low bitrate (2.84MB/s bitrate)

this is the file HERE (http://www.pirnie.org/ic_bug_repros/works%20ok.zip) (910kb unzips to 60MB)

people can download it and try it

I'm using 7.02 and my default reg settings are, so use the same settings as below please if you wanna check your speed

DVDAnalyzeMaxRel 7%
DVDSaveQuality 6%
DVDAnalyzeMinAbs 40MB

set Title 1 to 50.74% and leave Title 2 at 100% and process it

it took around 25 secs to analyse the Titles and overall it took 3minutes and 45 secs to process the file!!

the resulting file was 54235kb in size

so very very slow but obviously due to constant image (probable cause) and the small/constant bitrate or both

p.s it will still process title 2 cos IC is stupid :)

p.p.s. I deleted discdata files and just ran it again with theses reg settings and it still processed at 365kb/s, finished after 3mins 45 secs and came out exactly the same size again!!

DVDAnalyzeMaxRel 1%
DVDSaveQuality 1%
DVDAnalyzeMinAbs 25MB

[padre]

jippiejajee,

I'm using IC v7.0.1.119 (sometimes known as 7.2). I didn't benchmark it before I did the upgrade (just got the new system today).

On my 1.9ghz, the same disc would encode between 0.5 and 0.7MB/s rate. I didn't notice any difference (more or less) when I went from 7.0.1.114 to 119 on that PC.