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Multimedia

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I've noticed the all new improved Fully Multithreaded Handbrake 0.9.0 will use all 4 cores of my Quad Mac Pro for encoding mp4 files to iPod-iPhone-AppleTV compatibility from DVDs & DVD images. Wondering if I could find some of you 8 Core owners to tell us if it uses all 8 cores when run alone to encode one of your DVDs or, if you have EyeTV, to encode a DVD image of an EyeTV recording from Toast 8. Anyone please?

Please tell us the 2-pass first pass analysis fps speed and the second pass writing fps speed.

There's no doubt it uses all 4 cores in a Quad G5 as well as a Quad Mac Pro. Really want to know if it also will use all 8 cores in the Octo Mac Pro. Please.

Thanks in advance for your help.
 
after the first five minutes, i'm averaging 131.58 fps

this is ripping a dvd using all the standard settings.

all 8 cores in use using about 60% per core. firefox is still running.

edit:

second pass about 110.03 fps

all cores maxed out between 95 - 100%
 
5 gigs of ram. i just open up handbrake and put in a dvd and clicked start.
 
Multimedia said:
Those low numbers don't make sense if all 8 cores are maxed out. What settings are you using? How much RAM do you have?
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Probably a limitation of the DVD drive speed more than the processing power. I havent seen the application max out my quad core either; usually I get around 300% processing total right off a DVD.
 
Wasn't Asking About Ripping From DVD Media On An Optical Drive

irishgrizzly said:
Maybe try the same test using a DVD image on the HD?
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Yes I NEVER rip from DVDs - only Images I create with Toast from EyeTV recordings. Ripping from DVDs is not what I was asking for anyone to do. I'm going to start using Make RAM Disk when I get my Harpertown 8 core with 16GB of RAM. Will burn DVD Image and rip mp4 in Handbrake all in a RAM Disk from the applications in a RAM disk. That will be the ultimate speed possible.
 
there must be something ****ed with my system because i'm not getting above 110 fps today even using a disk image and using the ipod high rez setting.
 
Multimedia said:
Yes I NEVER rip from DVDs - only Images I create with Toast from EyeTV recordings. Ripping from DVDs is not what I was asking for anyone to do. I'm going to start using Make RAM Disk when I get my Harpertown 8 core with 16GB of RAM. Will burn DVD Image and rip mp4 in Handbrake all in a RAM Disk from the applications in a RAM disk. That will be the ultimate speed possible.
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By the time you rip the DVD, make the RAM disk, and all that jazz, you could have just ripped the DVD directly to whatever file you wanted in the first place, and probably in half the time too. Seems like an awful waste of time just to see "300 fps" on that Handbrake app.
 
I Never Rip DVDs MovieCutter

MovieCutter said:
By the time you rip the DVD, make the RAM disk, and all that jazz, you could have just ripped the DVD directly to whatever file you wanted in the first place, and probably in half the time too. Seems like an awful waste of time just to see "300 fps" on that Handbrake app.
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I don't rip DVDs. I make DVD images from EyeTV recordings and then rip to mp4 with Handbrake. Direct from EyeTV to mp4 encodes look terrible plus they lack the cropping and target size control in Handbrake.
 
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