HC Encoder version 0.20 (22-Feb-2007)

[cynthia]

The developer Hank315 has today released a significant update to the famous HC Encoder. HC is a very high quality freeware MPEG-2 encoder that can challenge any commercial alternative in terms of speed and quality. Use it with DVD ReBuilder to make amazing quality DVD backups! The new version comes with support for HD resolutions up to 1920x1152, updated GUI, speed improvements for SSE2 compatible processors and a few other improvements.

http://www.bitburners.com/HC_Encoder/

[NightTran]

my email update is not here yet I think I will wait

[moonboots]

A quick non scientifique test of "Blade Runner director's cut " movie only HC "fastest " Phase 2 encoding showed 67 mins for HC 19 vs 52 mins for HC 20 running with Opteron 170 @2,5GHz .
The improvement is very impressive indeed

[blutach]

And the quality?

Regards

[moonboots]

And the quality?

As i said, not a in depth analysis, but the quality didn't appear to be less than the previous HC version.
No doubt people will test it with "sterner" examples, but all the same, Hank is to be congratulated if he had managed to maintain the quality with a significant improvement in speed.

[ed klein]

Hope HC020 will accept,load,and run the latest d2v video file as input created by DGIndex to get an output m2v video file at 4.37gb.

[hank315]

HC020 supports the latest dgmpgdec149b14 release (fileversion 16).
Also the older fileversion 15 is supported.

About speed, an example:
Matrix3, PAL, movie only, normal profile, CPU Intel E660:
encoding time 31 min using DVD-RB PRO (multiple instances).

[BR7]

Cool I will give it a go tomorrow and post my results

[anonymez]

w00t! Nice work Hank

[BR7]

I did a small test On the first pass I'd avg 35 fps on the 2nd pass I'd avg 44 fps
Processed 18,910 frames.
-- Building .AVS and .ECL files
- Reduction Level for DVD-5: 45.0%
- Overall Bitrate : 2,018/1,614Kbs
- Space for Video : 2,468,120KB
- HIGH/LOW/TYPICAL Bitrates: 4,184/400/1,614 Kbs
I posted a sample below
I am now doing the full movie using multiple encoder processes and I will report my time tomorrow

[Romero]

Well just did a encode using my quad core with Vista and 4 processes enabled with hc 20 on The Guardian reg2 which is 7.41gig and the encode took just 37 mins. Excellent speed

Romero

[BR7]

On my Pentium D 2.80 GHz
Using multiple encoder processes
ENCODING completed in 140 minutes

[linx05]

I've been waiting for this release for a while now. So glad it is out. I had already started an encode last night but I'll make sure to re-do it with the new version.

@Romero
So jealous of your encoding times!

Changelog:

Changes from version v0.19.0.1:
support for HD resolutions, up to 1920x1152
added some new functions: *ZONE and *MASK_SHIFT
improved autogop function with *AUTOGOP command
higher encoding speed for SSE2 CPU's
supports latest DGDecode/DGIndex (fileversion 15 & 16)
GUI updated
more built-in matrices
more parameter input
as usual some bug fixes

[techreactor]

Yesterday only I was thinking, when's the new HC version gonna be released and here it us, vola!!!

[techreactor]

Adaptive matrix feature looks interesting

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[LEFT]*ADAPTIVEMATRIX[/LEFT]
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[/SIZE][/FONT][I][FONT=Arial-ItalicMT][SIZE=1][LEFT]Status [/LEFT][/SIZE][/FONT][/I][FONT=Arial-ItalicMT][SIZE=1][LEFT][/LEFT][/SIZE][LEFT][/LEFT][/FONT][LEFT][FONT=ArialMT][SIZE=1]not required[/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT][FONT=ArialMT][SIZE=1]
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[/SIZE][/FONT][I][FONT=Arial-ItalicMT][SIZE=1][LEFT]Example [/LEFT][/SIZE][/FONT][/I][FONT=Arial-ItalicMT][SIZE=1][LEFT][/LEFT][/SIZE][LEFT][/LEFT][/FONT][LEFT][FONT=ArialMT][SIZE=1]*ADAPTIVEMATRIX
This command activates the code in matrix.dll. Using this command you can change matrices at
every GOP. [/SIZE][/FONT][B][FONT=Arial-BoldMT][SIZE=1]This is meant for very experienced users only !![/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/LEFT][B][FONT=Arial-BoldMT][SIZE=1]
[/SIZE][/FONT][/B][FONT=Arial-BoldMT][SIZE=1][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=ArialMT][SIZE=1][LEFT]See the adaptive matrices section in this manual how to create the dll.[/LEFT]
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