Cannot enable hardware encoding in MediaEspresso 6.5 with R6850

[machasm]

Hi guys,
as the title says.
I cannot get the "enable hardware encoding" box in media espresso 6.5 settings to work. It always appears greyed out.
Now I have installed the AMD codec pack and have AMD APP installed (as far as I can tell anyway).
The "enable hardware decoding" is available and ticked.
I have disabled the onboard IGPU just in case this is causing any issues.
When I started ME it ran through a "testing hardware" setup to check if my card was capable I guess.
Any ideas?
This is my setup
Asus P8-Z68-V Pro /Gen3
MSI R6850 PE
16Gb Ram
OCZ Vertex 3 120Gb SSD
couple of spinners for data.
Cheers.
Mac.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Uh?

Doesn't MediaEspresso support QuickSync? If so don't use the 6850, the ondie gpu with your sandy cpu will destroy it and produce better imagine quality encodes.

 

[machasm]

Thanks.
Yes it does support quickSync.
I have tried using it and, although it does transcode successfully, I wouldnt say the quality was great.
So I was looking to see how it compares to the 6850 if I could get it to work!
Thanks for your input though it is appreciated.
Mac.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Have you tried increasing the quality within the settings, AMD/Nvidia produce less image quality than the HD3000 while being slower as well.


http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/...-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/9

 

[Phynaz]

Accelerated encoding with Media Espresso and an AMD card just passes the job onto the AMD encoder. Strictly middle of the road quality.

If you want accelerated encoding with low-end software, Quick Sync is the best quality there is.

 

[Phynaz]

Have you tried increasing the quality within the settings, AMD/Nvidia produce less image quality than the HD3000 while being slower as well.


http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/...-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/9

There are no quality settings available when using accelerated encoding. Media Espresso offers a high quality (2 pass I believe) cpu only mode.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Tom's says there is, but I have no personal experience with it I'm only going off what I read a year ago... Can't believe I remember it lol!

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews...d-app-nvidia-cuda-intel-quicksync,2839-9.html

 

[machasm]

Thanks for the replies guys.
Looks like I will be sticking to transcoding using the CPU then.
Cheers.