Finish Gknot/VDub jobs 25% faster

Cornetet - My encoding setup takes roughly 1.8 - 1.9x the time length of the movie. That's with the following setup: Pentium 4 / 553MHz FSB / 1,066MHz 512MB RIMM RAM Intel 850E MB / ATA-100 drives / WinXP SP1 using: GKnot 0.26.1b / DivX 5.0.2 / 1-disc (700MB) / 2-pass / Field deinterlace / bicubic neutral / 128kpbs variable MP3 BeSweet audio Hehehe... I have to say that I'm pretty happy with this setup, becuase I can easily encode two entire discs while I sleep, and often three - plus also while at work or away from the computer. True, this'll still be slower if you want two-disc surround-sound audio encodes, but this works awesome for me. ====================================== My previous hardware setup did encoding with the same software as above, but with the hardware below, at roughly 2.5x the time length of the movie: Athlon XP 1900+ / 266 FSB / 512MB DDR266 DDR RAM VIA KT266A / ATA-100 drives / WinXP SP1 Hope this helps ya out.

When you're leaving your computer alone, the encoding process with low priority takes about 99% cpu power, the same as with high priority. With realtime, it takes 100% that's why it completely locks the system - it won't even give kernel tasks any processor time. If the encoding process doesn't use 98-99% of the cpu power when it's in idle priority mode, then some other process is stealing cpu power from it - find this process and eliminate it :D The only "advantage" encoding at high priority has is that you can't even check your emails while encoding, or at least it takes half an hour for the program window to open...

Exactly. There's no point in assigning high CPU priority. Thinking it gives any benefit whatsoever really demonstrates a sincere and unfortunate lack of knowledge about how PCs and OS's work.

Figured this deserves to be in this thread: YV12 will soon make encoding 25% faster or so. :D For real.

Couple questions: 1) What's YU12? 2) Is it likely to be integrated into Gordian Knot? That is, which components would use it?

have a look at avisynth forum for YV12

I have a 1.4ghz Athlon and w/out IVTC (force film usually works) and only b-frames at 640 res, the first pass usually takes a itty bit longer than realtime, meaning a 2 hour movie may take about 2hr 30 min, however, the second pass is faster (cause i use divx 5.02), and it only takes like 1hr 45min for second pass. So you're lookin at a huge increase there bub. Also I am running Win XP Pro and those times are w/out that thread priority tweak.