i5 7600 video encoding - surprisingly decent

[escrow4]

So I dug up some old VIDEO_TS one to one rips from an age ago back when I was actively encoding. Thing is Kodi on this shifty Android box doesn't support straight up folders so I needed to fix it stat if I wanted the file to be watchable.

So I cranked up Handbrake with these settings:

-> .mkv
-> CRF 18 / one pass
-> x264 Main Profile @ L3.1 with "medium" preset
-> AC3 passthru
-> Default subs

11 minutes - ! - later with my 7600 non K hammered to 100% it was done. In sync and shrunk from 3.89GB to 660MB. No quicksync, just CPU grunt. I rarely encode anymore but I must say modern quad cores do have some puff in them for quick and dirty encodes (AVX probably helped too).

 

[gx_saurav]

Try QuickSync with VidCoder. It will be even faster.

 

[Eug]

Have you tried hardware h.265 HEVC encoding (QuickSync)? I'm curious how good that will be. Going forward I'm thinking of sticking with h.265 instead of h.264.

BTW, I just ordered an i5-7500 machine. Performance should be a little slower than yours but within the same general ballpark for software encoding.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Nice to hear. In all the "quads are dead" hysteria and mania for huge numbers of cores, we seem to have forgotten that except for the heaviest workloads, quad cores are really quite powerful.

 

[Thunder 57]

Handbrake and x264 really benefit from AVX. HEVC appears to benefit a good bit from AVX2 as well.

I had some 28 DVDs of a TV show that I wanted on a thumb drive. After the painful process of ripping them all, transcoding them using Quicksync took maybe a few hours. SInce the content was only SD, I wasn't able to notice any loss in quality. Now I can plug that drive into my TV and watch any episode without those pesky DVDs. I've even used quicksync for HD content and generally been impressed. It's really only something I'd do in a hurry though, for a permanent copy I'd still use x86.

 

[John Carmack]

So I dug up some old VIDEO_TS one to one rips from an age ago back when I was actively encoding. Thing is Kodi on this shifty Android box doesn't support straight up folders so I needed to fix it stat if I wanted the file to be watchable.

So I cranked up Handbrake with these settings:

-> .mkv
-> CRF 18 / one pass
-> x264 Main Profile @ L3.1 with "medium" preset
-> AC3 passthru
-> Default subs

11 minutes - ! - later with my 7600 non K hammered to 100% it was done. In sync and shrunk from 3.89GB to 660MB. No quicksync, just CPU grunt. I rarely encode anymore but I must say modern quad cores do have some puff in them for quick and dirty encodes (AVX probably helped too).

Funny enough, when I do MP4 encoding (CRF / one pass / slow for filesize) I find my i5 6500 a slow pig. You have lower expectations I guess.

 

[TheELF]

Have you tried hardware h.265 HEVC encoding (QuickSync)? I'm curious how good that will be. Going forward I'm thinking of sticking with h.265 instead of h.264.

BTW, I just ordered an i5-7500 machine. Performance should be a little slower than yours but within the same general ballpark for software encoding.

Quicksync is good

Nvenc is much faster though with a new card.

 

[escrow4]

Funny enough, when I do MP4 encoding (CRF / one pass / slow for filesize) I find my i5 6500 a slow pig. You have lower expectations I guess.

11min ain't slow. For an i5.

As for Quicksync until the quality matches software cores I'll pass.