How to enable intels QuickSync?

[1stcowgirl]

i have i7-4790k + z97-A + 780Ti
i want to convert video files and i need to use intels QuickSync.
i dont know how to enable that.
i have 2 displays, one 22" monitor + 32" TV, both plugged to the GPU.
can anyone please guide me to enable QuickSync?
thnak you.

 

[snarfbot]

First make sure all your intel drivers are installed then go into bios and check that your igp is also enabled, then it should be available in whatever encoding program you wanna use.

 

[1stcowgirl]

thank you.
this was the simple easy answer i got.
will test that and report.
i really really thank you. (for that super answer, all other i got felt like a pain in the ...)

 

[snarfbot]

Np

 

[LoveMachine]

Just to confirm, by "plugged to the GPU" you mean the cables are connected to the motherboard HDMI/DVI ports, not a separate GPU card, yes? Also, what are you using to convert the files with? e.g Handbrake, etc.

 

[1stcowgirl]

hi, i still havent had the time to check this but yea, cpu means the onboard output.
im asking this cause till today iv been using nvidias CUDA.

iv got no knowledge on these tools so forgive me if i dont use the correct term of words.

having to wait 12min for a 500mb mkv to mp4 is a really really hurting pain in the butt.
we started watching star trek a year ago (just now we are starting the 7th season of DS9).
we said goodbye to cables and other commercials media two years ago, so encoding is an important tool here.
i got no knowledge about the mechanism of encoding but iv seen the wonders of using cuda.
someone said that cuda was not ... efficient(?) enough and a new technology is going to be used for encoding (think it was somthing like NVCU...somthing, anyway cant find any software that support it yet. they said that "nero encoding" should do the trick but issue is that nero wont handle MKV for me.)
anyway.. im using a moded driver for today and i dont know whats coming tomorrow so im looking for other fast ways to encode videos. that why im interested in quick-sync.
it will be very disappointing if ill find out that quick-sync is not as fast as the cuda.

 

[poofyhairguy]

we started watching star trek a year ago (just now we are starting the 7th season of DS9).

Great show.

having to wait 12min for a 500mb mkv to mp4 is a really really hurting pain in the butt.

You are doing it wrong.

Unless you are transcoding on the fly (or something like that), "speed" when it comes to encoding should be a lower priority than quality.

I assume you are using what.....Handbrake? Ripping DVDs with Handbrake?

If so just add all the chapters to a queue and let it run overnight! Heck I have two burners in my main desktop so I can rip two DVDs a night.

That way I can maximize the quality of each, so I NEVER have to do it again. I will be happy to share my best Handbrake profile.

Here is why I won't touch quicksync:

QuickSync is usually pretty fast, but the choice of bitrates in Handbrake seem to force it into one of the new modes in Haswell which actually regressed in both performance and image quality.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7007/intels-haswell-an-htpc-perspective/8

Or heck, just use MakeMKV to rip each chapter to an mkv. If you time is really valuable than ANY re-encoding is not needed...

 

[1stcowgirl]

Great show. .

no no, nothing fancy.
i use winavi AiO converter. im not talking about riping. im talking about converting MKV to MP4.
quality is super.!

converting to HD MP4 looks awsome. (we do this every week with shows like trueblood fallingskies majorecrimes and so)

sometimes i convert to 720 and times i do 1080. _ if you look hard enough you can see something that maybe different, but for the most of it.. you wont tell the difference.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Oh jeez, why are you butchering mkv files? In most cases they are already compressed by people that know a lot more about encoding than any of us. Anything you do on top adds artifacts, and possibly ruins the fps.

Is it because you are trying to play all the files on a primitive device like a PS3 or Blu Ray player? Because you could build a system based on a RASPBERRY PI (so less than $50) that could actually play all those mkvs without spending one second on encoding.

However good those mp4s look, I promise the real mkv looks better. Its best to just play them on a device that can hooked straight to the tv.

 

[1stcowgirl]

Oh jeez, why are you butchering mkv files? In most cases they are already compressed by people that know a lot more about encoding than any of us. Anything you do on top adds artifacts, and possibly ruins the fps.

Is it because you are trying to play all the files on a primitive device like a PS3 or Blu Ray player? Because you could build a system based on a RASPBERRY PI (so less than $50) that could actually play all those mkvs without spending one second on encoding.

However good those mp4s look, I promise the real mkv looks better. Its best to just play them on a device that can hooked straight to the tv.

no!
im playing it on a built in USB media player on my FHD tv.
iv seen those artifacts and low quality signs on a converted video, BUT NEVER WHEN USING WINAVI WITH THE RIGHT ENCODER AND DECODER.
HD-MP4 DOES NOT GET ALL THOSE THINGS YOU MENTIONED

 

[rumpleforeskin]

If your TV does not support the MKV format you would surely be better only changing container to MP4. At the moment it looks like you are reencoding a x264 video to a x264 video just to change the container?

There is no need to recode unless your TV does not support the original profile (baseline, high etc). Though you may still want to continue recoding the audio as many USB players only support mp3/ac3 and not AAC or DTS.

Secondly why do you not rip the shows strainght from DVD/BluRay to mp4, I don't see the logic of converting it first to a format your hardware does not support then converting it again?

 

[poofyhairguy]

no!
im playing it on a built in USB media player on my FHD tv.

Ok, that makes sense. My recommendation stands then- the fastest way to do this is not to do it. Just get a device that can play mkvs as they are and hook it to your tv. Heck, Amazon just put the FireTV on sale!

iv seen those artifacts and low quality signs on a converted video, BUT NEVER WHEN USING WINAVI WITH THE RIGHT ENCODER AND DECODER.
HD-MP4 DOES NOT GET ALL THOSE THINGS YOU MENTIONED

Unless the video is of such a low quality that you can clean things up on re-encode (think silent era films), than ANY re-encoding will ALWAYS give you a final file that is worse than the original.

It is like making a photocopy of a photocopy. It will be worse than the original in some way. Maybe not a way YOU notice, but I promise you Winavi is not a magic bullet. It's final product is worse than the source, maybe you just can't notice it on your equipment.

I mean, from your screenshots alone I personally think you are butchering these files. At the very least you are taking the native audio track and compressing it into AAC, which means that everything you re-encode has a worse quality sound that can't be bitstreamed to 99% of AVRs.

Another issue in the screenshot is that program IS redoing the video stream from what is probably High Profile h264 to High Profile h264. That means, unlike when you re-encode for something like an iPod, you are doing this for NO GOOD REASON. Any decent software would simply take that video stream and drop it into an mp4 container WITHOUT re-encoding. Then you don't need Quicksync.

Look at this video, it will show you how to do this process while keeping maximum quality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNo4Bxh6JGo


Look, I understand that you have something that works and you probably don't want to spend money on something else even if it will work much much better. Normally I help people accommodate these "good enough" solutions because heck I don't want to buy you a FireTV or a Pi. With that said if you post BLANTENT untruths, like this Winavi software is doing everything perfectly and not reducing the quality of your files, I will always call out those untruths.

When I look at that Winavi website and I notice that its price is the same as a box that could just play the mkvs, it makes me wonder if this whole thread is all just astroturfing.

So To answer your ORIGINAL question:

You obviously don't mind a lower quality, in which case quicksync is perfect for you. I don't know if the great and powerful Winavi supports it, but Handbrake does. Here is how to use it in Handbrake:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/harnessing-handbrake

Handbrake is free so that solves your problem.