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Old 16th January 2019, 21:20   #2101  |  Link
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I‘m currently 2-pass transcoding a BluRay and it takes about 26 hours on my 5th gen. i7.
CPU load: 100 %

Is it bad for the transcode if I do some web surfing during the process.
Sometimes my browser freezes for less than a second ...
Would that harm my transcodes?

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Old 16th January 2019, 21:39   #2102  |  Link
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Is it bad for the transcode if I do some web surfing during the process.
Sometimes my browser freezes for less than a second ...
Would that harm my transcodes?
No.
If you are planning to use your computer while encoding you should even lower the priority of the process to low/idle. This way your browsing (or whatever else you're doing) will not 'freeze' and the encoder only gets the CPU cycles that are available. Of course that only works when you have sufficient memory installed.
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Old 16th January 2019, 21:52   #2103  |  Link
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Sounds great.
Thank you for your answer.

I asked because more than 10 years ago, I transcoded my then library with iTunes to mp3. I was gaming and doing other CPU intense things during the transcoding process.

After that, I noticed for 10 % of my 10,000 mp3s an audible click noise for less than a millisecond.
Thought that was because of the high CPU load.
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Old 16th January 2019, 22:15   #2104  |  Link
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I asked because more than 10 years ago, I transcoded my then library with iTunes to mp3. I was gaming and doing other CPU intense things during the transcoding process.

After that, I noticed for 10 % of my 10,000 mp3s an audible click noise for less than a millisecond.
Thought that was because of the high CPU load.
No idea, should not happen. Does itunes by any chance use the GPU for transcoding?
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I really don’t know ...
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I would rather suspect misinterpreted ID3 tags as source of distortions.

Back to x264?
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Old 17th January 2019, 08:45   #2107  |  Link
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Yes, that could possibly be.
Thanks for clarification.
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Old 21st January 2019, 14:23   #2108  |  Link
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qcomp 0.8 is part of --tune grain so it's not anything insane. We usually don't recommend users to fiddle with those parameters because they don't really understand them and are better off simply using preset+tune than choosing "wrong" values.

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From what i understand of the lower values it distributes more bitrate to more visible areas and uses less bitrate in lower visible areas but when i did some video comparison the lower qcomp appears to take freely from a bunch of areas like parts of the fingers or hair or background were missing, i guess the bitrate for those areas are put elsewhere? I could see the benefit of this in constant rate factor maybe but it doesn't seem to be as needed in two-pass.
Yes, it's about redistributing bits. With higher qcomp the redistribution is less aggressive. This redistribution affects 2pass and crf in the same way.
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No idea, should not happen. Does itunes by any chance use the GPU for transcoding?
There definitely were not GPU accelerated MP3 encoders in iTunes >10 years ago!
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qcomp 0.8 is part of --tune grain so it's not anything insane. We usually don't recommend users to fiddle with those parameters because they don't really understand them and are better off simply using preset+tune than choosing "wrong" values.
Yeah, finding a better value for a particular type or piece of content is possible. But finding a significantly better generic default value is highly unlikely.
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Maybe interesting:
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=175723
Never mind, I typed into the wrong thread here, too many windows open...
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Old 9th February 2019, 22:14   #2112  |  Link
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Why there is no official binary r2935 10bits ?
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Old 9th February 2019, 22:27   #2113  |  Link
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8 bit and 10 bit are now combined into a single binary. Use --output-depth 10

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Old 9th February 2019, 22:41   #2114  |  Link
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i'm using StaxRIP 1.7 but it doesn't work with "--output-bitdepth 10" i get "failed with exit code: -1 (0xFFFFFFFF)"
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Sorry, --output-depth, not --output-bitdepth
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8 bit and 10 bit are now combined into a single binary.
Oh, just like x265. Nice.
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Does anyone have inisight on how x264 uses NEON instruction sets?
I just upgraded from a mobile device with 8x symmetric Cortex A53 to 4xA53 slower +4xA72 faster that has more or less the same multicore performance for a majority of tasks
However I noticed that x264 has had more than a 2x speedup on this device
Does Cortex A72 come with some special vector magic it uses?
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IIRC there is a lot of hand tune NEON assembly in x264
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I've been experimenting with going back to x264 for some of my BD re-encodes where the source is rather soft or noisy/grainy. I'm having a hard time figuring out when one would need to tweak psy-trellis. I understand that psy-rd is mainly responsible for keeping the grain, or at least fooling the viewing into believing that there is detail there, but I don't know what psy-trellis adjusts. Can anyone explain any use cases?
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