Which Looks Better?

[tigerman8u]

@ anonymez and laserfan
That's the bottom line do what makes you happy and your preference. If you are satisfied with the end result and you like what you see.

[TNT]

For sure! And what I've come to realize in the past several years is that "normal people" don't see any of this stuff. My wife still doesn't know-or-see what I'm talking about most of the time--she just watches and it all looks fine to her!

I couldn't have said it better my self!

Actually, my wife can see and hear the differences, but she just doesn't care!

[anonymez]

can see and hear the differences, but she just doesn't care!

lol i hear ya, same situation over here

[TNT]

CHEERS!

Ironically, she has better hearing than I do. Although I have better eye-sight!

[anonymez]

@anonymez what kind of encoding speed are you getting with your pc specs. ie how long to encode a 1 hour movie. Do you mind posting your pc specs

sorry tigerman, forgot to answer this,

PC Specs:

AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+
2GB PC3200 Dual Channel RAM
ASUS A8V-E SE Motherboard
ATI X800XL 256MB PCI-E Graphics Card
Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM 8Mb Cache
Western Digital 200GB 7200RPM 8Mb Cache
LG GSA-4163B DVD +R/-R
LG DVD ROM
Antec 450W PSU
CMV 19" LCD

encoding a dvd (pal 25fps) cropped & resized by avisynth to 720x288, into Me GUI. all settings completely maxed out for quality (except 2-pass instead of 3. 3 is over-over-kill).

set it to 2 threads, used total ~70% cpu during first pass. first pass average 35.3fps

2nd pass average 4.71fps. cpu load varied ~75% to ~95%

obviously time isn't an issue for me

[anonymez]

btw with the introduction of coreAVC, its quite possible to do full 1080p encodes and actually be able to play them on regular pc's

but even 720p goes something like 2fps!

and imagine the horror of having to deinterlace 1080i-->1080p!!!!! what a nightmare. i fear the day i need to use tdeint on something like that, we're talking 0.001fps

[Chewy]

set it to 2 threads, used total ~70% cpu during first pass. first pass average 35.3fps

2nd pass average 4.71fps. cpu load varied ~75% to ~95%

what's the max ram in use just doing this?

[anonymez]

just started a 720p encode, takes ~230mb physical

[Chewy]

thanks, glad to know it's not a gig!

[anonymez]

lol

guess its safe to say 512mb is recommended

[NightbladeXX]

IMO 1 looks more natural and 2 looks better not exactly sure why

[anonymez]

just did a 720p encode of a 94 min movie (jumanji-- source 1080p). settings were not maxed out (for my own pc's good), but still high.

started from 9:33pm, finished 5:05pm the next day. 1st pass averaged 8.179fps, second pass 2.69. gotta be the longest encode i've ever done!

[futurex]

just to be different, i like number one lmao