I'm gonna be purchasing a new CPU and need advice on which will be better/faster for recoding h.264 used on Blu-ray movies. I just purchased a Blu-ray burner and am recoding/compressing the larger BD-50 dual layer movies down to BD-25 single layer. This process takes quite awhile on an old 2.4GHz P4 that's been used over the years for DVD's MPEG2 recoding. Since I recently made the jump to recoding Blu-rays this old dedicated workhorse needs to be replaced with a new system. My budget for the CPU is $200 and I'm thinking of getting the 8-core AMD FX-8120. Is this a good choice for the described job or should I get a quad core Intel Core i5-2400?
Need advice on CPU choice for recoding h.264 on Blu-ray
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tongue_of_colicab
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Can't you use the gpu for that these days? Might offer better performance for the money than a cpu.
I'm not familiar with what kind of graphics card I could get for $200 that is as fast or faster at recoding. Do you have any suggestions? Also if I go with the AMD CPU it's gonna go into a new motherboard that has a Radeon HD 4250 onboard. If I go with the Intel it will have whatever built-in graphics that CPU offers. On the other hand if I go with a separate $200 graphics card I will still have to get a "cheap" $50 CPU just to run the PC. Then there's the other option of getting a $100 CPU and a $100 graphics card?
some benchmarks cpu only
http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-a6-3500-apu-review/13
have a look at quicksync (its supposed to be good at transcoding, could be wrong)
http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-a6-3500-apu-review/13
have a look at quicksync (its supposed to be good at transcoding, could be wrong)
Cool thanks for the link!
Just a question... If your source material is a blu-ray movie, stored on a disc, and the destination is also a blu-ray disc........why on earth aren't you just playing back the original disc? Why all this extra work?
It's for movies I don't own eg borrowed or rented....
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how about avivo amd gpu transcoding
speed up editing and transferring your videos to a portable video player with new Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT) technology. Introduced with the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series, AVT leverages the parallel processing power of the GPU to achieve faster than real-time encoding and transcoding. You can convert videos to H.264 and MPEG-2 formats up to 19x faster than when using a just CPU
edit found some gpu benchmarks
blueray to ipod transcode
amd 4870 = 12 secs
badaboom gtx260 = 23 secs
xilsoft converter q9650 = 72 secs
ps: is ripping the copy protection the same as transcoding ?
speed up editing and transferring your videos to a portable video player with new Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT) technology. Introduced with the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series, AVT leverages the parallel processing power of the GPU to achieve faster than real-time encoding and transcoding. You can convert videos to H.264 and MPEG-2 formats up to 19x faster than when using a just CPU
edit found some gpu benchmarks
blueray to ipod transcode
amd 4870 = 12 secs
badaboom gtx260 = 23 secs
xilsoft converter q9650 = 72 secs
ps: is ripping the copy protection the same as transcoding ?
But quality isnt that good and You are limited to only few resolutions.
There an increasing amount of third party applications though that support GPU accellerated encoding. I use imToo for transferring kids DVDs to PSP (and now Vita), for instance, but they have loads of different products for conversion and so on. Using GPU accelleration on that gives about the same performance on my 2009 Intel quad-core CPU as on my ATI 5570, which is convenient because just using the GPU compute keeps my system very responsive.
If quality is your main concern then go for fast CPU and FX8120 will get you performance of Core i7 2600K and quite a bit more than i5 2400.
If you're happy with QuickSync quality and limitations and it works with software you want to use then it will be the best option to go for now.
Once nVidia and AMD GPU transcoding hits retail they will take the lead, but you have to get at least HD7750 card to get that feature or wait month or two for Trinity APU's.
Not an easy choice ...
If you're happy with QuickSync quality and limitations and it works with software you want to use then it will be the best option to go for now.
Once nVidia and AMD GPU transcoding hits retail they will take the lead, but you have to get at least HD7750 card to get that feature or wait month or two for Trinity APU's.
Not an easy choice ...
Yes, but it's limited settings and medicore quality aren't suitable for transcoding to anything than portable devices in my opinion.
New VCE engine build into 28nm GPUs from AMD and nVidia should be much more flexible and a lot faster as well while offering better output quality.
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New VCE engine build into 28nm GPUs from AMD and nVidia should be much more flexible and a lot faster as well while offering better output quality.
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Completed building the PC this weekend and also rebuilt a second PC I have that recently died from a burned out onboard Nvidia GPU chipset. Under load for all 8 cores the stock CPU fan spins up to 6K rpm and gets fairly loud. I have the FX8120 overclocked to 4GHz and at 90% load during re-encoding core temp maxes out at 55C. The stock heatsink for the FX8120 has built-in heatpipes compared to the stock unit for the FX4100 which doesn't have them.
My other computer which recently died from a failed onboard Nvidia GPU chipset was rebuilt using a FX4100 also overclocked to 4GHz. It replaced a C2D E7200 which was quite fast for my needs but I decided to buy a new AMD motherboard/CPU combo. Both FX equipped PCs are running budget Biostar A880GZ uATX boards and Crucial Ballistix Tactical DDR3 sticks. Both are very stable at 4GHz.
Decode/Re-encode of dual layer Blu-ray movies takes about 5 hrs to shrink them down to a SL BD. I currently have the onboard Radeon HD4250 set to decode and the CPU for encode. Not sure if it's faster/slower and/or better quality than having the CPU do both decode/re-encode...might have to try that at a later time.
FX8120@4GHz system
FX4100@4GHz system
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My other computer which recently died from a failed onboard Nvidia GPU chipset was rebuilt using a FX4100 also overclocked to 4GHz. It replaced a C2D E7200 which was quite fast for my needs but I decided to buy a new AMD motherboard/CPU combo. Both FX equipped PCs are running budget Biostar A880GZ uATX boards and Crucial Ballistix Tactical DDR3 sticks. Both are very stable at 4GHz.
Decode/Re-encode of dual layer Blu-ray movies takes about 5 hrs to shrink them down to a SL BD. I currently have the onboard Radeon HD4250 set to decode and the CPU for encode. Not sure if it's faster/slower and/or better quality than having the CPU do both decode/re-encode...might have to try that at a later time.
FX8120@4GHz system
FX4100@4GHz system
My favorite line of memory
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Hah! Even my case which is rusted (!!) and broken in about every way it can break looks better than that on the inside
I am willing to trade my tidy E6750 system for your sloppy bulldozer. I'll even throw in a can of spraypaint to cover up the rust
Blazkowicz
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that's neat, I didn't know you could do that though there's no reason AMD would disallow it, outside of a HDCP playback chain.
we can estimate the speed up, or the slow down if done fully in software. let's say encoding is 10x slower than decoding, then switching to full software processing would be about 10% slower.
best thing in town for encoding would be either a great DSP based solution. why we aren't seeing encoding cards and decoding cards readily available on PCI and PCIe I don't know. or a many-core CPU, the only one worth mentioning for now is Intel Knights Corner but if it's released one year from now and sold at $10K it isn't very helpful.
GPGPU encoding is just software, there's no software made for AMD GCN and nvidia Kepler yet.
best would be for the x264 community to work on this but.. many man-hours needed I suppose, and it will work for a subset of users whereas generic software can run on a tablet or a pentium 2 or a 8-way sparc server if that's what you want.
btw, 5 hours, a figure I've just read from your post. it's a pretty nice number for encoding such heavyweight video with the most CPU hungry codec
.I wonder what the figure is for other encoding, and the resulting quality. I would like to do 4GB, 720p xvid with high quality stereo OGG
, made from high bitrate bluray.
Whoops that was directed at RudeCurve.
How is that q6600 holding up for you Davros? I would like to slap a q6600 in this old P35 mobo, clock it to 3200MHz and give it to my brother so we can play BF3 together. The E6750 just barely keeps things playable in 64p matches.