Problem with GTX260 and enabling CUDA decode/encode

[maineman]

My I jump in here, please.
This is a great post/topic. I have changed my setting based on Maineman's post, from Coreavc to his settings, and it has geatly speeded up the process, and MORE IMPORTANTLY less "random glitches, jiggles and stutters" in the finished product.
My only question is I can't find any way to set my GTX 260 to a single GPU....There is nothing in my control panel to do this, So to maybe answer Ipov's is the 200 series only 1 GPU?
Again great post. Moderators, how about making a sticky on this one?
Geat help, thanks. Stu

By all means, please...jump in with both feet and welcome.

[IPopov50]

My only question is I can't find any way to set my GTX 260 to a single GPU....There is nothing in my control panel to do this, So to maybe answer Ipov's is the 200 series only 1 GPU?
Again great post. Moderators, how about making a sticky on this one?
Geat help, thanks. Stu

Stu,
I don't know about 260 card, I have 295 and it's 2-chip card. I do not have time to investigate, pls check on nvidia.com configuration of you card. And if it's single-chip card, there's nothing to worry about.
You also can download GPU monitor from here and see how many processors GPU monitor will see: http://www.4shared.com/file/hdKgT52w/GPUMonitor.html

[EVT]

By all means, please...jump in with both feet and welcome.

Maineman,

It looks like my settings are the same as yours, including Nvidia settings. What I'm trying to do is compress the movie only using either blu-ray copy or blu-ray ripper. In both cases I get the same result when I have it setup like yours running either Fab 7.0.9.3. or 8.0.0.5.

Essentially, a few seconds it shuts down and I get a message that the video card has now been resotred or something like that. If I disable Cuda encoding I have no problems.

Are you successfully compressing your files with your settings? If so please give me an example of what you're compressing so I can give it a shot.

Thanks again.

[IPopov50]

Maineman,

It looks like my settings are the same as yours, including Nvidia settings. What I'm trying to do is compress the movie only using either blu-ray copy or blu-ray ripper. In both cases I get the same result when I have it setup like yours running either Fab 7.0.9.3. or 8.0.0.5.

EVT,
please take a look at Post #15 in this Thread. Please go to Common Settings to same A/V Codec settings page (same as in post #15) and post here everything you see there. Thx.

[EVT]

EVT,
please take a look at Post #15 in this Thread. Please go to Common Settings to same A/V Codec settings page (same as in post #15) and post here everything you see there. Thx.

They are all exactly the same as what maineman posted - nothing is different.

[IPopov50]

They are all exactly the same as what maineman posted - nothing is different.

Who they??? Is it difficult to post?

[maineman]

EVT,

I'm stuck at work right now and essentially will be all weekend, but yes, I'm able to compress BD discs without issue, never changing settings.
Initially, I rip the BD disc (usually main title only with English audio stream and subtitles), uncompressed to a hdd.
If you're not doing this, please do not compress on the initial rip.

Often, I'll just view these files via my media player, but fairly often I'll compress to BD9 and less frequently to BD25.
Never have an issue compressing.

I also have done some BD conversions to mkv.
The only issues here for me are unrelated to GPU acceleration. The biggest one is the ever-present subtitle problem...which I need thanks to my 61 y.o. ears and way too much Jimi Hendrix in my college days...although it never seemed to be enough back then... am
I am able to do it with MKV Merge... thanks to Ipopov's always sage advice, but I digress....

Maineman,

It looks like my settings are the same as yours, including Nvidia settings. What I'm trying to do is compress the movie only using either blu-ray copy or blu-ray ripper. In both cases I get the same result when I have it setup like yours running either Fab 7.0.9.3. or 8.0.0.5.

Essentially, a few seconds it shuts down and I get a message that the video card has now been resotred or something like that. If I disable Cuda encoding I have no problems.

Are you successfully compressing your files with your settings? If so please give me an example of what you're compressing so I can give it a shot.

Thanks again.

[EVT]

EVT,

I'm stuck at work right now and essentially will be all weekend, but yes, I'm able to compress BD discs without issue, never changing settings.
Initially, I rip the BD disc (usually main title only with English audio stream and subtitles), uncompressed to a hdd.
If you're not doing this, please do not compress on the initial rip.

Often, I'll just view these files via my media player, but fairly often I'll compress to BD9 and less frequently to BD25.
Never have an issue compressing.

I also have done some BD conversions to mkv.
The only issues here for me are unrelated to GPU acceleration. The biggest one is the ever-present subtitle problem...which I need thanks to my 61 y.o. ears and way too much Jimi Hendrix in my college days...although it never seemed to be enough back then... am
I am able to do it with MKV Merge... thanks to Ipopov's always sage advice, but I digress....

Thanks,

I think the only major deviation is that I've been compressing straight from the disc rather than copying to the PC first. I'll give that method a try and let you know if it works. Thanks for te tip.

[EVT]

Who they??? Is it difficult to post?

I thought I indicated that my settings were the same as maineman's. And by settings I'm referring to the A/V Codec settings you referenced in post #15.

I didn't post a picture of my settings as I can't seem to paste the picture into this post. Anyway, I can assure you that each of my A/V Codec settings are the same as maineman's identified in post #15.

In any event, I see maineman has used a slightly different method to compress his movies so I'll give it a shot and see what happens.

[IPopov50]

I thought I indicated that my settings were the same as maineman's. And by settings I'm referring to the A/V Codec settings you referenced in post #15.

I didn't post a picture of my settings as I can't seem to paste the picture into this post. Anyway, I can assure you that each of my A/V Codec settings are the same as maineman's identified in post #15.

In any event, I see maineman has used a slightly different method to compress his movies so I'll give it a shot and see what happens.

I didn't really care about your codec settings, but I wanted to see what CUDA driver version and CUDA Capability revision number DVDFab seeing on your machine...
BTW, just a piece of advice fo future - no offense - if you are asking somebody to help you, and that person asking for something, there must be a reason for it. Between my precious weekend time and number of people who seek for help (mostly on weekends), I do not have much of a time to explain every detail why I asked for this or that, but provide assistance to you and others as fast as I can... Again, nothing personal, just an attempt to streamline the effort...

[EVT]

I didn't really care about your codec settings, but I wanted to see what CUDA driver version and CUDA Capability revision number DVDFab seeing on your machine...
BTW, just a piece of advice fo future - no offense - if you are asking somebody to help you, and that person asking for something, there must be a reason for it. Between my precious weekend time and number of people who seek for help (mostly on weekends), I do not have much of a time to explain every detail why I asked for this or that, but provide assistance to you and others as fast as I can... Again, nothing personal, just an attempt to streamline the effort...

No worries, I didn't take it personally. But, I still can seem to be able to paste a copy of my settings into a post on the forum. In any event, my Cuda driver version and capability revision number are the same as maineman's as well.

Thanks again, your assistance is much appreciated.

[IPopov50]

I still can seem to be able to paste a copy of my settings into a post on the forum.

Simplest way to do it is take a screenshot, trim it, clean from info you think seems unnecessary to post on public forum, and attach it to your message using "Manage Attachments" button below... or just copy-paste as a text here with or without quotes.

[EVT]

Simplest way to do it is take a screenshot, trim it, clean from info you think seems unnecessary to post on public forum, and attach it to your message using "Manage Attachments" button below... or just copy-paste as a text here with or without quotes.

I'm still having trouble doing that but here are the relevant details:

Graphics Chipset :
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

CUDA Driver Version: 3.10
CUDA Capability revision number: 1.3

Supported Video Codecs :
CUDA_MODE_H264
CUDA_MODE_VC1
DXVA_MODE_H264

CoreAVC : cannot be detected.

[EVT]

EVT,

I'm stuck at work right now and essentially will be all weekend, but yes, I'm able to compress BD discs without issue, never changing settings.
Initially, I rip the BD disc (usually main title only with English audio stream and subtitles), uncompressed to a hdd.
If you're not doing this, please do not compress on the initial rip.

Often, I'll just view these files via my media player, but fairly often I'll compress to BD9 and less frequently to BD25.
Never have an issue compressing.

I also have done some BD conversions to mkv.
The only issues here for me are unrelated to GPU acceleration. The biggest one is the ever-present subtitle problem...which I need thanks to my 61 y.o. ears and way too much Jimi Hendrix in my college days...although it never seemed to be enough back then... am
I am able to do it with MKV Merge... thanks to Ipopov's always sage advice, but I digress....

I gave it a shot using your method but I still ended up with DVD Fab crashing. I ripped the full disc of Quantum of Solace to an ISO and then I tried compressing the full disc to a BD25, within a few seconds DVD Fab crashed.

If I disable Cuda encoding and stick with software it works fine, of course then I lose speed which is very important as I'm looking to rip over 400 blu-ray's and my collection is building.

[ernielee]

I gave it a shot using your method but I still ended up with DVD Fab crashing. I ripped the full disc of Quantum of Solace to an ISO and then I tried compressing the full disc to a BD25, within a few seconds DVD Fab crashed.

If I disable Cuda encoding and stick with software it works fine, of course then I lose speed which is very important as I'm looking to rip over 400 blu-ray's and my collection is building.

What speed are you getting with Cuda encoding disabled?