Optimal encoding with FFmpeg for DVD

[kolak]

You can't get new license of old SD encoder anymore.
Only 2nd hand.
You can get h264/5 encoders from Miguel.

[Metal-HTPC]

Originally Posted by Emulgator

I wouldn't touch that HC2Setup64.exe, hank315 never released setup.exes
BTW at the given speed of CPUs these days and HC's good threading it does not need a 64 bit build to make anyone happy.
That old CCE was 32bit AND the winner.
hank315's 0.24 beta 16-02-2010 was rather an acadamic example if a 64bit build would work I guess, since he continued improving his 32bit builds from then on. Still you can have it if you like.

well I basically switched everything to 64bit here as I'm not too much into combining 64 and 32bit. I would definitely love to test this rare 64bit version of HC and am curious if it accepts AVS+ and the scripts involved and how the speed it if I do a prefetch for 24 threads which you can't do in 32bit avs anyways by the way.
It probably also works with commandline right?

Originally Posted by cubicibo

Silicon Philosophies took over CinemaCraft products and technology, including their MPEG-2 encoder. While they no longer offer the product on their website, you could always send them a mail if you really think it is worth your money.
There's also an eBay listing for a very late version supporting Windows 10 pro. But you are on your own here.

thanks for the info. I doubt that they still sell it but I definitely give it a go and write them. the ebay listing is pretty expensive and if you're unlucky that DVD or CD-Rom and maybe even the usb dondel is long dead...

[kolak]

They don't sell it anymore.
I know guy who owns Silicon Philosophies.

[benwaggoner]

Rhozet Carbon Coder also had a very good MPEG-2 encoder and possibly is available used some places. It required a dongle for individual licenses, so you'll need that as well.

A blast from the past. I wrote one of the manuals for ProCoder 1.0, which eventually evolved into Carbon Coder.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Carbon Coder was fun The servers in my profile pic were running it at some point!

AWS Elemental's MPEG-2 encoder was impressive for low bitrate MPEG-2 last I looked, not sure how it stands up for DVD style encoding. It's at least super cheap to use in AWS for one-off activities.

[qyot27]

Originally Posted by Metal-HTPC

well I basically switched everything to 64bit here as I'm not too much into combining 64 and 32bit. I would definitely love to test this rare 64bit version of HC and am curious if it accepts AVS+ and the scripts involved and how the speed it if I do a prefetch for 24 threads which you can't do in 32bit avs anyways by the way.
It probably also works with commandline right?

The 0.24 beta 16-02-2010 that's hosted in the old versions on videohelp doesn't have any 64-bit build in it. There's not even any mention of 64-bit in the 0.24 thread until September of 2010, and even then the discussion seems to be focusing around using 64-bit MeGUI, which would probably be piping from the old 64-bit AviSynth to 32-bit HCenc, not opening it directly.

What the 16-02-2010 beta does have is a build with differing optimization flags:

Also there's a special version included which doesn't use CPU dispatching which runs 2-3 % faster on my Intel Q9450.
Any CPU which can do SSSE3 will run it, it might also speed up AMD systems, Intel compiler options: /O3 /Og /QaxT /QxT
(There are rumours CPU dispatching by Intel compilers doesn't do that well on AMD ).
I don't have an AMD system at home or at work so I can't test it.

HCenc_024_QaxT.exe would be that build, but

$ file *
HCenc_024.exe:      PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows, 6 sections
HCenc_024_QaxT.exe: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows, 6 sections
HCgui_024.exe:      PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows, 6 sections

All 32-bit.