Want to review CPU's - which movies settings to use.

[Solo]

I want to start reviewing CPU's on my site and would like to find out what you guys suggest for benchmarking both DivX and XviD encoding.

In Doom9's codec comparison chapters were used from The Matrix and Private Ryan ect. I also want to select one particular chapter from a movie which I will use as my permanent source for encoding comparisons. Then select one paricular version of VirtualDub and AVISynth to encode the benchmarks.

I would like it to be as credible as possible so please all suggestions are most welcome.

[Wolfman]

The first 15 monutes of donnie darko. Review CPU's ??

[GeorgeForeman]

you might pick something with a nice soundtrack or more enjoyable material like first vob of Last of the Mohicans (nice sound track) or first vob off the Lord of the Rings Fellowship good mix of colors as well as nice mix of material to watch repeatedly.

[Soulhunter]

My favorite clip for testing purpose... The Matrix (PAL DVD) - Lobby shootout chapter (time 3:07 min) !!!

Bye

[Solo]

Originally posted by Wolfman
Review CPU's ??
My first attempt:
http://www.planetmars.co.za/forums/index.php?showtopic=10656

Think I will stick with The Matrix (Lobby scene) then. The image quality is not the important part it is actually the speed ie how fast each CPU takes to encode as a benchmark.

[Doom9]

I didn't see any avisynth script and codec settings. Also.. what source was it? Movie name is one thing but there might be different releases. I'd presume that the source has something to do with speed (complexity and such) so release A might yield different resus than release B. That's why I have direct links to a place where you can buy the respective discs in my codec comparison. As long as there is no re-release (and I'm not aware of any) everybody can duplicate my tests to the dot (assuming it is a publicly available codec of course).

[Solo]

Yip exactly why wanted some feedback. Thank you Doom9. The disk was Region2 PAL release. The settings were done automatically via Gordian Knot. I will redo it though using The Matrix, but PAL Region2 as I own the original disk myself.
Then I will use similar setup to this for future compares.
DVD2AVIdg 1.0
mpeg2dec3.dll
AviSynth 2.53 for frameserving
VirtualDub 1.5.10 for encoding (except for RV9)

[Doom9]

The disk was Region2 PAL releaseThere could be many of those. For instance, there's quite a number of movies in my country that are not available on the outside because we have a different distributor that got a license just for one country.

The settings were done automatically via Gordian Knot.But you can configure the codec within GKnot ;)

[Wolfman]

I dunno a) How many different Cpus can you test Amd Intel and Via thats three
b) every cpu will have a different chipset so How can you seperate chipset from cpu.
C) there are optimized encoders I think, so thats a bit unfair.

[Doom9]

a) & b): as long as the entire platform is indicated it's alright.. it's not really a cpu test but a platform test obviously, but you need a lot of resources to actually test mainboards and cpus separately.
C) there are optimized encoders I think, so thats a bit unfair.
You mean because DivX5 is P4 optimized whereas XviD does not contain any special CPU optimizations (or the other way round.. has been optimized for both platforms with no special focus on a single platform).