CUDA encoding not working?

[Bendit]

My system:

NVIDIA Quadro 2000 (with latest drivers)
Windows 7 (with latest patches)
DVDFAB 11.0.4.5

Even though I select GPU acceleration in the config menu, my DVDs now encode with CPU.

The new meter in the top right of the screen says CPU and "NVIDIA hardware accel is not used".

It's now very slow to encode.

What happened?????

[signals]

Other have reported this as well and I have confirmed it on my Win7 PC. Not sure of the cause, but it has been reported. You can see what to expect from CUDA on the AV Codec page in DVDFab Common Settings by clicking on the Hardware Info button. When you say "DVDs" do you mean actual MPEG-2 DVD-Video discs or Blu-ray as well?

[Mona]

My system:

NVIDIA Quadro 2000 (with latest drivers)
Windows 7 (with latest patches)
DVDFAB 11.0.4.5

Even though I select GPU acceleration in the config menu, my DVDs now encode with CPU.

The new meter in the top right of the screen says CPU and "NVIDIA hardware accel is not used".

It's now very slow to encode.

What happened?????

We need dvdfab_internal.log and fabcheck_internal.log to help check this issue. Thanks in advance.

[Bendit]

This is while ripping DVDs (DVD9) to hard drive. I have not tried with a bluray.

Also, according to the "AV Codec page in DVDFab Common Settings", everything should and looks be fine. I have CUDA set for everything I think.

I didn't change any settings. I just upgraded to latest version, then started a rip and it was ssssssssslllooooowwwww...

[Bendit]

We need dvdfab_internal.log and fabcheck_internal.log to help check this issue. Thanks in advance.

Signals confirmed it on his Win7 computer and he's an admin here. Can't you work with him to figure this out? Thanks.

[signals]

We need more information to be able to duplicate what you are seeing. If you are using DVD Copy mode, there is nothing for the GPU to do, since the video is neither decoded nor encoded when writing a DVD9 to DVD9. So, Copy mode or Ripper?

[Bendit]

This is while ripping DVDs (DVD9) to hard drive. I have not tried with a bluray.

Also, according to the "AV Codec page in DVDFab Common Settings", everything should and looks be fine. I have CUDA set for everything I think.

I didn't change any settings. I just upgraded to latest version, then started a rip and it was ssssssssslllooooowwwww...

As stated above, RIPPING DVDs (DVD9) to hard drive.

My Windows 7 computer is nothing special. Windows 7 with all the latest patches, and the most recent video drivers from nvidia.com. Nothing special. Thanks guys!

[october262]

try uninstalling your DVD/CD-ROM drive, restart your computer and let windows reinstall the drives
and see if that works. sounds like your dvd drive has slipped into PIO mode.

[Chameleon]

Working fine in my 2080 ti , only in ripping mode, never used it for anything thing else.

[Azr43l]

We need more information to be able to duplicate what you are seeing. If you are using DVD Copy mode, there is nothing for the GPU to do, since the video is neither decoded nor encoded when writing a DVD9 to DVD9. So, Copy mode or Ripper?

I have the same problem in 11.0.4.7. No CUDA hardware encoding is taking place on a conversion from H.264 to H.265. Never had problems prior to version 11.x.x.x.x. I'm just converting an mp4 video file clip.

Here's my logs.

Thanks

[him007]

I have the same problem in 11.0.4.7. No CUDA hardware encoding is taking place on a conversion from H.264 to H.265. Never had problems prior to version 11.x.x.x.x. I'm just converting an mp4 video file clip.

Here's my logs.

Thanks

I have the same problem too in 11.0.4.5 and 11.0.4.7 no CUDA hardware encoding is taking place on a conversion from H.264 to H.265 and H.265 to H.265,

Never had problems prior to version 11.

4.4.

[Bendit]

Thank you all!

Admins, do you require anything else to diagnose and fix this issue? Please let me know. Thanks!

In the meantime, where can I download the previous version of DVDFAB?

[LEXXE]

For me the CUDA function does not work at all. I am in the COPY mode and copy the main movie to BD50 size, so original size. As soon as I press START I see on the speed meter that only the CPU window lights. Normally, as soon as CUDA becomes active, the NVIDIA window should also light up. For fun's sake, I switched to the RIPPER mode and lo and behold, as soon as I pressed START on the Speedmeter also the NVIDIA window was activated, so that means for me in COPY mode, there is no CUDA support whether I activate CUDA in the General Settings have. The next problem is that I mean max. Copying speed (about 30MB / s) only at 80% of the copying process ... is this normal? ... I thought the max.Speed I have from the beginning? In any case, I have tried everything now and no matter what I activate or deactivate I am always the same slow. The functions Lightning-Recoding and Lightning-Shrink are unfortunately also ineffective. Slowly I wonder if I have a fundamental problem with the interaction of my hardware and DVDFab11 x64? Or are 30MB / s copying speed normal for my CPU?
My hardware consists of: i7-9700K / GTX 1060 6GB / 32GB RAM Corsair Vengeance / Motherboard ASUS Prime Z390 Pro / Pioneer BDR-S09XLT Bluray Drive.
I am thankfull for every opinion. fabcheck_internal.log install.log dvdfab_internal.log

[LaciBacsi]

LEXXE As far as I know, CUDA is only used when compressing a movie (e.g. BD50>BD25), so if you are simply making a backup that does not require compression or re-encoding, it is likely that CUDA will not be used. At least this has been my experience. As far as the copy speed, a lot has to do with the speed that DVDFab is able to read from that particular BD disc /drive combo and that typically will be the "bottle-neck" since DVDFab cannot copy/re-encode any faster than its able to fill up its buffer. You can check this by making a PISO copy to your HDD, then use the PISO to make a copy. Since HDD I/O speed is much faster than a BD Disc/Drive combo, you should see a substantially faster copy speed then using BD disc/drive. That said, using BD disc and drive to make copies will have some physical limitations that DVDFab cannot overcome. You should also note that every disc will have a different speed, depending on how the original disc was authored and manufactured.

So even if your BD drive is capable of reading, say, 55 MB/s, the actual read speed can (and usually will) be lower based on authoring/manufacturing. In the many backups I have made, I have never had a disc reach the BD drives max read capability. Some older discs I have, have a very low speed, reaching maybe only 15 MB/s, or even less.

[LEXXE]

Thank you for your detailed explanation. My Bluray drive is running at 54MB/s reading speed. Then it's probably up to the Bluray discs themselves that you can't read out faster. With my CPU i7-9700K I get a maximum of 30 MB/s copy speed.