Hi all,
I've created a small shell script which benchmarks the performance of x264 against QuickTime H.264. Unfortunately, I myself don't have a Mac Pro or any Mac with the performance to encode HD material. I was hoping to get someone (or a few people) here who wouldn't mind running my script for me.
The script comes with a 64 bit binary of x264 which installs to /usr/local/bin.
There is an install script which takes care of installing the needed components: mencoder, qt_export, and wine with AviSynth (for SSIM calculation). This also downloads an HD version of Big Buck Bunny as the test source. The script requires MacPorts, so if you don't already have it, get it here.This script requires interaction three times: once for your password (to install the ports), once when installing AviSynth in wine (just click through the installer), and again to install qt_tools (type 'y' in the terminal). After that it will run the benchmarking script itself, so you don't have to do anything. The benchmarking script will automatically send the results to my server and remove all the intermediate files, so you won't have to clean up after it.
The gotcha is that this script generates some HUGE intermediate raw video files, and if you're running it on Buck Bunny, your total HDD usage will be anywhere between 50 and 100 GB.
Of course, if you already have some HD content, you don't need to download Buck Bunny. In this case, just pass your video file to the install.sh like so:
./install.sh /path/to/your/video
It will forego downloading Buck and just run xdbench.sh on your video after the installation part is complete.
Let me know if anyone can help me out with this, and thanks in advance!
http://xdot.command-q.org/XDBench.zip
I've created a small shell script which benchmarks the performance of x264 against QuickTime H.264. Unfortunately, I myself don't have a Mac Pro or any Mac with the performance to encode HD material. I was hoping to get someone (or a few people) here who wouldn't mind running my script for me.
The script comes with a 64 bit binary of x264 which installs to /usr/local/bin.
There is an install script which takes care of installing the needed components: mencoder, qt_export, and wine with AviSynth (for SSIM calculation). This also downloads an HD version of Big Buck Bunny as the test source. The script requires MacPorts, so if you don't already have it, get it here.This script requires interaction three times: once for your password (to install the ports), once when installing AviSynth in wine (just click through the installer), and again to install qt_tools (type 'y' in the terminal). After that it will run the benchmarking script itself, so you don't have to do anything. The benchmarking script will automatically send the results to my server and remove all the intermediate files, so you won't have to clean up after it.
The gotcha is that this script generates some HUGE intermediate raw video files, and if you're running it on Buck Bunny, your total HDD usage will be anywhere between 50 and 100 GB.
Of course, if you already have some HD content, you don't need to download Buck Bunny. In this case, just pass your video file to the install.sh like so:
./install.sh /path/to/your/video
It will forego downloading Buck and just run xdbench.sh on your video after the installation part is complete.
Let me know if anyone can help me out with this, and thanks in advance!
http://xdot.command-q.org/XDBench.zip