a quad core is supposed to help me encode video faster right?

[BlahBlahYouToo]

trying to encode an HD video about 4GB in size into mp4 format to put on my ipod with SUPER.

even with my Q9550, 8GB RAM, it's SLOW.
cpu is hovering between 60-75% across the 4 cores. 20 minutes in, it's looks to be about 5 percent done.

i'd hate to see how long it would take a single or dual core.

 

[Blain]

How long did a 4GB file take with your dual core CPU?

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Originally posted by: Blain
How long did a 4GB file take with your dual core CPU?

never tried.

 

[Blain]

HD video crunched down to ipod size is massive compression.

 

[jae]

I havent used it in a while, but SUPER has been known for being notoriously slow.

 

[Blain]

Try Format Factory.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Originally posted by: Blain
Try Format Factory.

cool, i'll give this a shot.

finally finished... 4.5gb down to 700mb. took about 1.5 hours.

 

[0roo0roo]

lol
super is a flaming pos
of course it runs slow, uninstall it immediately.
try something like handbrake or media coder

 

[evolucion8]

Cyberlink Expresso whatever works great.

 

[jae]

make sure the software takes advantage of multi-cores

 

[dbcooper1]

If CPU usage is that low, it sounds like you're reading from and writing to the same physical drive.

 

[0roo0roo]

oh, it doesn't matter, video encoding is generally too slow to saturate a drive. if ur encoding at speeds that flood your drive, its going freakin fast. only exception is if ur reading some ridiculously huge source file..bluray or uncompressed video.

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
oh, it doesn't matter, video encoding is generally too slow to saturate a drive. if ur encoding at speeds that flood your drive, its going freakin fast. only exception is if ur reading some ridiculously huge source file..bluray or uncompressed video.

^ was going to say this.

 

[alyarb]

so does everyone hate automkv around here?

 

[dbcooper1]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
oh, it doesn't matter, video encoding is generally too slow to saturate a drive. if ur encoding at speeds that flood your drive, its going freakin fast. only exception is if ur reading some ridiculously huge source file..bluray or uncompressed video.

If CPU usage is 60-75%, it's waiting for SOMETHING; what else could it be?

 

[vj8usa]

Originally posted by: dbcooper1

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
oh, it doesn't matter, video encoding is generally too slow to saturate a drive. if ur encoding at speeds that flood your drive, its going freakin fast. only exception is if ur reading some ridiculously huge source file..bluray or uncompressed video.

If CPU usage is 60-75%, it's waiting for SOMETHING; what else could it be?

Maybe it just can't fully use 4 cores?

 

[dbcooper1]

Originally posted by: vj8usa

Originally posted by: dbcooper1

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
oh, it doesn't matter, video encoding is generally too slow to saturate a drive. if ur encoding at speeds that flood your drive, its going freakin fast. only exception is if ur reading some ridiculously huge source file..bluray or uncompressed video.

If CPU usage is 60-75%, it's waiting for SOMETHING; what else could it be?

Maybe it just can't fully use 4 cores?

So, you're saying it's NOT CPU intensive? It's completely using at least 3 of the cores at times. I thought video encoding/transcoding was the one application that could use all the CPU horsepower available to it. There's a bottleneck somewhere, be it disk or RAM related.

 

[heyheybooboo]

Auto Gordian Knot

 

[Modelworks]

Do you have a nvidia card installed ? If so :
http://www.badaboomit.com/

I use Divx for encoding. Yes it cost money and you can get xvid for free, but I use Divx because it is easy to use and the software maxes out all cores. I also use the divx menu functions.
http://www.divx.com/en/win

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Format factory seems to be about the same speed as SUPER, but a nicer interface.
Handbrake is much faster thab both, about 45 min.
Yes I have nvidia card. I'll check out the link later.

 

[elconejito]

I've used AutoGK (to AVI), AutoMKV (to AVI & MP4), and Handbrake (to MP4).

By far, my favorite is handbrake. The default profile is really fast and gives reasonable quality. if I need extra quality I can choose one of the slower profiles.