It went from 6 hours encoding a 2 hour movie to 24 hours (total time includes filters, which I did not change filters between tests). top shows mpeg2enc using 99% of the CPU (which I would expect). I don't see any dip in CPU usage so I don't believe I'm seeing a stall but am willing to try.
-- Ray On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 22:23:03 -0700 (PDT) "Steven M. Schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Ray Cole wrote: > > > I downloaded the source and built it. It seems to run about 4x slower > > than 1.6.1. Any ideas? > > Get a new watch? ;-) With out some numbers I find it very > difficult to believe "4x slower". > > For full sized DVD frames around 5 to 6 frames/sec or so is > normal with ~2.4GHz systems. Of course the time will depend on > if you're using any of the filtering programs such as yuvdenoise. > With a dual cpu system the filters will use up one cpu while the > encoder uses the other (and a bit more since it's threaded). > > That would mean you were seeing 20 frames/sec with 1.6.1? I > seriously doubt that - I'd like faster encoding but mpeg2enc > has never gotten up to that range on 720x480 or 720x756(PAL) > sized data. > > A couple things to make sure are being used are "-M 2" with the > encoder, and put a buffering stage in front of the encoder. I > use the 'bfr' program > > http://www.glines.org:8000/software/buffer.html > > something like " ... | bfr -10m | mpeg2enc ..." is the typical > usage. If the encoder is stalling for input due to latency in > earlier stages of the pipeline then 'bfr' will be of good value. > > Some timings of the same pipeline would be helpful of course ;) > > Cheers, > Steven Schultz > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware > With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. > WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines > at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 > _______________________________________________ > Mjpeg-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
