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Old 18th September 2008, 14:04   #201  |  Link
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We're testing encoding using x264 via DGAVCDecodeNV. What is your point?

Anyway, there is no decoding done when saving a project.
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Old 18th September 2008, 14:09   #202  |  Link
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Ok, I will try very soon a CRF encode to try the improvement
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Old 18th September 2008, 14:16   #203  |  Link
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Thank you for your testing.
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Old 18th September 2008, 14:30   #204  |  Link
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I ran a quick test with a CRF encode of 1280x720 material.

E8500 @ 3.8 GHz

NV GPU: 27.9 fps

CoreAVC via DSS: 28.4

Apparently CoreAVC is so good that its CPU utilization is comparable to the overhead of managing decoding on the GPU (memory transfers host<->device, etc.). It's hard to believe, so I'll look to see if I've missed something.

I'm beginning to think this is a dead end, since things can only get better on the CPU versus the GPUs, which are "cast in silicon".

Maybe I'll update the regular versions with the latest libavcodec code while we wait for a CoreAVC API/SDK.
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Old 18th September 2008, 14:44   #205  |  Link
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I do have some good news in regards to the deinterlacing of vp2.

The following image was deinterlaced using a simple TempGaussMC():


The following with the VP2 Deint:



I used very naive settings of the default, just to play the role of a new user who doesn't know better. The deinterlacer is very very sharp.
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Old 18th September 2008, 14:51   #206  |  Link
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Maybe that's the saving grace!

Nice shots, thanks for posting.

BTW, I noticed with CoreAVC via DSS(), it blend deinterlaced, even though I have deinterlacing turned off in its control panel. It also included my clip 4 times in the output! I haven't used CoreAVC much but I was somewhat surprised. Any idea what is going on?

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Old 18th September 2008, 14:57   #207  |  Link
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To be honest, I think that the decoding on the GPU is a neat idea, but in the end should be an option for those with the right hardware who want to try squeezing a little more speed out of their encodes. I'm concerned though that eventually the limitations of DXVA on these cards may begin to hinder this great program's ability to work. I agree that the PAFF accuracy is nice (haven't gotten to try it myself yet though) but I know how difficult it can be sometimes to make hardware based tasks like this work consistently. The thought of only one instance at a time is scarry too, as I sometimes do more than one encode at once, or may in the future be reading from more than one source at once (doing a fade between two of my camera's clips comes to mind).

Bottom Line: I feel that hardware acceleration is better for realtime critical applications (playback). However for applications like transcoding, a pure software solution is better, since speed is nice, but not critical, and it can grow as needed without being as you say "cast it silicon."

edit: That de-interlaced footage does look nice! Does it change the fps to 60 like DGbob does? (assuming of course the source was 30i).

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I already said several times that I'm not dropping the pure SW solution.

And nobody said the single instance version is anything more than a test version for encoding speeds.

Why are you raising these bogeymen???
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Old 18th September 2008, 15:05   #209  |  Link
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Yes, indeed.. I'll need to test on a longer interlaced source to see how well a "good" deinterlacer will fare vs AVCSource(deinterlace=true) speed wise. By "good" I mean to say one that would produce very similar results without being horribly slow At the very least, we have quite possibly a fast and high quality decoder + deinterlacer for those annoying 30i sources.


Edit: I forget where I got the source now, but it was thanks to some searching on the doom9 forums for an interlaced H.264 m2ts source did I find it.
Edit 2: neuron2, is it safe to assume you used DSS() using graphedit to connect CoreAVC as the decoder?
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I already said several times that I'm not dropping the pure SW solution.

And nobody said the single instance version is anything more than a test version for encoding speeds.

Why are you raising these bogeymen???
Sorry, I was just trying to give my opinions. I wasn't trying to beg you to keep the pure SW solutions.
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I ran a quick test with a CRF encode of 1280x720 material.

E8500 @ 3.8 GHz

NV GPU: 27.9 fps

CoreAVC via DSS: 28.4
You could try it with a single core - you might be pleasantly surprised. (Windows can be limited to a specific number of cores by using the /numproc=X switch in c:\boot.ini.)
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BTW, I noticed with CoreAVC via DSS(), it blend deinterlaced, even though I have deinterlacing turned off in its control panel. It also included my clip 4 times in the output! I haven't used CoreAVC much but I was somewhat surprised. Any idea what is going on?
The clip looping 4 times I would dismiss as a directshowsource side-effect, but the deinterlacing is a mystery - coreavc can't do blending (the "Blend" option shows one field and discards the other, which is why it was renamed "Single Field" in 1.8.0).
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Old 18th September 2008, 15:24   #212  |  Link
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Edit 2: neuron2, is it safe to assume you used DSS() using graphedit to connect CoreAVC as the decoder?
I just made a script with DirectShowSource("file.264"). Is that wrong?
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Old 18th September 2008, 15:25   #213  |  Link
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@squid_80: For the single core users who happen to have a very fast GPU, this is indeed very useful.

On another note, while this is an extremely unusual case, I'm curious how much speed up I can afford on two machine setup with TCPServer --> TCPSource.

@neuron2: I'm not completely sure. My normal routine is Directshowsource("graph.grf") with graph.grf being a filter graph of source file --> CoreAVC. I don't know if doing it your way could produce different results.
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Old 18th September 2008, 15:53   #214  |  Link
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I just ran a quick test on my e6750 @ 3.6Ghz and 8800gt 512m.

BD source croped and resized to 1280,528

In virtualdubmod encoding to huffyuv with software = 21fps
same with hardware = 34-42fps

encoding to x264 ("turbo" settings) with software decoder = 21 fps
same with hardware = 29 fps.

And i've seen the purevideo de-interlacer at work, I like it alot.

Sorry, it's not alot more detailed, but it's been a big day and I should be sleeping.

edit: neuron, did i read correctly, you are using 8600 gpu?
I'd like to see some tests from someone with a 9800gtx*2 or 280 core even in sli.
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Old 18th September 2008, 16:10   #215  |  Link
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Nice Deinterlacing results though i wouldn't have suspected that it beats something as advanced as TempgaussMC last time my visual subjective impression was it was on the same level then yadif, definitely more tests with different sources need to be done
Im gonna test DgdecodeNV as fast as i can though currently PC resources are not available

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As Donald already said it's equal for every Nvidia card they are all clocked with 400 mhz (VP1/2 core) <- (No Software yet can change that no Software even knows that this Clock is existing, it was revealed here almost as a Worlds First exclusive, not really that suprising its a own Hardware core though nobody knew how high it's clocked) so the only difference is the Memory Bandwith and most probably stuff like the Deinterlaceing could be a big amount faster as here the Shader Clock i think plays a role else for Progressive it should be really steady for us all and the results posted here show that it indeed is
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Old 18th September 2008, 16:18   #216  |  Link
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Yeah, the graph option is better, since you can build the graph yourself and guarantee what decoder is being used. I always use either a .m2ts file or .mkv file as my source, and then run that to the desired decoder (CoreAVC for AVC, WMV Decoder DMO for VC-1). Seeking can be unstable with this method though, which is why your DGAVCIndex/DGAVCDecode program is so valuable.
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A direct comparison between this (DGAVCDecodeNV) and the software DGAVCDecode (currently Alpha 35 IIRC) would be most welcome, as I don't have an NVIDIA-capable GPU to test this with (ATI Xpress 1150 or NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 ). Same settings, same encoder, please.
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neuron2: If you get the latest CoreAVC, then it has a tray icon when it's loaded like ffdshow.

And wow, the deinterlacer is really nice. I might have to trade cards with my brother so I get a 9600GT (got a 8800GTS 320MB now).
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A direct comparison between this (DGAVCDecodeNV) and the software DGAVCDecode (currently Alpha 35 IIRC) would be most welcome, as I don't have an NVIDIA-capable GPU to test this with (ATI Xpress 1150 or NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 ). Same settings, same encoder, please.
As soon as I get off work I'll compare these using the following settings.

DGAVCDecode

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LoadPlugin("[PATH\]DGAVCDecode.dll")
AVCSource("[PATH\]Transporter_DGAVCDecode.dga")
Spline36Resize(1280,544)
Code:
"[PATH\]x264.exe" --crf 18 --ref 5 --mixed-refs --bframes 3 --b-adapt 2 --b-pyramid --b-rdo --bime --weightb --filter -1:-1 --trellis 2 --partitions p8x8,b8x8,i4x4,i8x8 --8x8dct --me umh --threads auto --thread-input --sar 1:1 --progress --no-psnr --no-ssim --output "[PATH\]Transporter_DGAVCDecode.mp4" "[PATH\]Transporter_DGAVCDecode.avs"
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LoadPlugin("[PATH\]DGAVCDecodeNV.dll")
AVCSource("[PATH\]Transporter_DGAVCDecodeNV.dga")
Spline36Resize(1280,544)
Code:
"[PATH\]x264.exe" --crf 18 --ref 5 --mixed-refs --bframes 3 --b-adapt 2 --b-pyramid --b-rdo --bime --weightb --filter -1:-1 --trellis 2 --partitions p8x8,b8x8,i4x4,i8x8 --8x8dct --me umh --threads auto --thread-input --sar 1:1 --progress --no-psnr --no-ssim --output "[PATH\]Transporter_DGAVCDecodeNV.mp4" "[PATH\]Transporter_DGAVCDecodeNV.avs"
Directshow

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DirectShowSource("[PATH\]Transporter.mp4",fps=25,audio=false)
Spline36Resize(1280,544)
Code:
"[PATH\]x264.exe" --crf 18 --ref 5 --mixed-refs --bframes 3 --b-adapt 2 --b-pyramid --b-rdo --bime --weightb --filter -1:-1 --trellis 2 --partitions p8x8,b8x8,i4x4,i8x8 --8x8dct --me umh --threads auto --thread-input --sar 1:1 --progress --no-psnr --no-ssim --output "[PATH\]Transporter_Directshow.mp4" "[PATH\]Transporter_Directshow.avs"

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Old 18th September 2008, 17:29   #220  |  Link
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Ok, here are my results dgavcdecode vs. dgavcdecodeNV:

First good news: Using x264 cli two pass encodings are no problem.
Second good news: Acceleration is massive especially on the first pass.
Third good news: The quality of the final encode seems to be higher. I don't know why and have to do more tests.

Source: 1080p30 Apple music clip downscaled to 720p30
CPU: Q6600 2.4GHz
GPU: GF 8600 GTS 1.450 GHz

dgavcdecode:
pass #1: encoded 6580 frames, 32.68 fps, 4811.95 kb/s
pass #2: encoded 6580 frames, 21.48 fps, 5005.68 kb/s
x264 [info]: SSIM Mean Y:0.9689052
x264 [info]: PSNR Mean Y:41.892 U:48.994 V:48.284 Avg:43.078 Global:42.345 kb/s:5005.53


dgavcdecodeNV:
pass #1: encoded 6580 frames, 57.11 fps, 4811.95 kb/s
pass #2: encoded 6580 frames, 24.45 fps, 5005.42 kb/s
x264 [info]: SSIM Mean Y:0.9691189
x264 [info]: PSNR Mean Y:41.931 U:49.607 V:49.447 Avg:43.258 Global:42.404 kb/s:5005.27

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