Hardware This is why I love DVD Fab

[moore327]

As the title suggests... I am encoding a blu-ray to MKV in real-time. Takes about 36 min using software/cuda for the encoding. Running about 75-85% on all 12 CPU cores!

[LignGeorge]

I have 3 questions for you:
1) Did you deactivate hyper-threading? Because you have 2 hexacores so windows should recognize 24 threads not 12.
2) How mutch those kind of pcs cost?
3)I was wondering only out of curiosity:Xeon cpu's play games effectively like core i7 or they are only for workstation pcs ?

Thanks in advance

ps:Thanks dvdfab team and fengtao,you did very good job on v8.1.3.2.

[moore327]

1) Did you deactivate hyper-threading? Because you have 2 hexacores so windows should recognize 24 threads not 12.
2) How mutch those kind of pcs cost?
3)I was wondering only out of curiosity:Xeon cpu's play games effectively like core i7 or they are only for workstation pcs ?

Hi LignGeorge, I deactivated hyperthreading in the bios due to most encoding software utilizing only 6-12 cores. I haven't tested this yet with DVD Fab with all 24 cores activated. I built this PC from the ground up. The processors cost around $1500.00 a piece. I play ALOT of games on this computer and they play just as good as if i was using a core i7. I can tell you this machine is an absolute monster at video encoding...

[Chris_Gr]

I just convert a blu-ray to mkv without cuda,with 2600k cpu in only 38 minutes.With cuda i need 32 minutes.So what's the point of intel xeon???and also of $1500???Even if you enable hyper-threading,you will not see any big different,but only some 2 or 5 minutes less...So i can't understand why someone must have an intel xeon...

[moore327]

I just convert a blu-ray to mkv without cuda,with 2600k cpu in only 38 minutes.With cuda i need 32 minutes.So what's the point of intel xeon???and also of $1500???Even if you enable hyper-threading,you will not see any big different,but only some 2 or 5 minutes less...So i can't understand why someone must have an intel xeon...

You make a valid point. Are you encoding directly from the Blu-ray burner or are you first copying the Blu-ray to the hard drive, then encoding? But you are correct because most users will benefit just fine using a 2600k or equal AMD variant.

[Chris_Gr]

First on hard drive,and then encoding.If you try to encoding from blu drive,you will never take this time even with extreme or xeon lntel cpu's...sandy bridge 2600k it's a quad core(2*4=8 cores) monster!AMD i don't think that it could give me this time...If you play any game even with core i5 cpu's,you will never see any different with the eye...only in benchmark's...so...

[moore327]

Chris, I am encoding right from the blu-ray drive (which averages between 32-36 minutes). The drive is a Lite-on IHBS-212. This drive is 12x blu-ray reads and 8 mb of onboard cache (very quick). So, I would like to see how long it takes you to encode right from your blu-ray drive (in real-time). I will test copying directly to the harddrive, then encoding it. I am betting it will be very quick.

[moore327]

Alright, I just encoded "The Lost Boys" from the blu-ray disk to MKV in 17:43. This was directly from the Blu-ray burner to my hard drive. The disk was 24GB. I used Cuda + Software for the encoding.

[Chris_Gr]

First i don't have this title of movie "The Lost Boys" .So,i try it with Transformers 3 bluray.The size of movie is 46 GB,my blu-ray drive have 2 MB cache and 10X read speed.So i don't have equal features with you...But for this movie with this drive(BH10LS30),in cpu only, i took 1 hour and 22 minutes with 45 FPS.With software+cuda i took again 46 FPS(I think dvdfab doesn't load correctly my Gigabyte GTX 470 nvidia card),because in older versions,dvdfab gave me 72-78 FPS with CUDA!So,with software+cuda i took 1 hour and 16 minutes in 46-47 FPS,in which case cpu load was in 35% only.So what can you see from all this?

[Chris_Gr]

If you want to see how my Sandy can handle a bluray movie and what's it's power,tell me a movie title which i have also,and to encoding from hard drive you and me,and also only in cpu,without cuda,and we will see if there is a big different between xeon and sandy...I have SSD Corsair F90 series disk...

[LignGeorge]

Thanks for the information.

[Chris_Gr]

Also a last thing that you must tell me is,what's the resolution of encoding video?If i setting the resolution very low for example 128*54 i will get in a blu-ray disc of 46 GB size about 180 FPS!So,we need more information and more realtime screenshots...

[moore327]

I am getting 130 FPS encoding @ 1920 X 1080 using software + cuda (this was with the Lost Boys blu-ray. So I think there is a big difference speed wise between my computer and yours. Your right though... It still doesn't justify the cost of an Xeon machine. I have the money, so I chose the dual processor route because encoding is not the only thing I do with this computer.

[moore327]

I will copy "The Bank Job" to my harddisk and then convert it to MKV later on tonight. I will post the exact settings I used so you can duplicate it. More to follow.

[martythebrit]

Chris - How come you're not using Quick Sync?