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Well, I do identical encodes on a daily basis so my encoding settings are finely tuned. This would be very valuable doing a large amount of encoding; I.E. I have 400 GBs to encode on a 500 GB hard drive.
In the format stage, select "MPEG-4 file output", and select "MPEG-4 AVC format" as the stream type. Click the "Select" button to proceed to the next step.
720x480 video is overkill for the PSP as there are only 480 pixels on the horizontal and 272 pixels on the vertical of the PSP's screen. Any video that has a resolution greater than 480x272 WILL NOT WORK on your PSP.
Therefore, if you are transcoding widescreen video, I suggest you set the resolution to 480x272, and if you are transcoding 4:3 video I suggest you set the resolution to 368x272. In both instances you want AT LEAST 384kbps bitrate, if not 512kbps for movies where quality is of greater importance.
These are the settings I use for Widescreen video and square video respectively:
My updated 4:3 and 16:9 settins for PSP, based on 1 pass Quantization. MUCH better quality than my last uploaded settings and SMALLER file size. Quantization ftw.
It's just some text that shows up under the progress bar when you're outputting. You must have CUDA enabled to see it.
Also, just because it is using the GPU, it doesn't necessarily mean that it will be faster. In fact, I think you should turn off CUDA if you are not applying video filters.
For those unaware, TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress has been updated to version 4.6.3.268. Here are the latest revisions:
Fixed: CUDA - CUDA usage would not display when at 0%.
Fixed: CUDA - A color error would appear when using the video noise filter.
Fixed: CUDA - "Simple duplication on stripes only" and "Inverse pulldown (reinforced anti-stripes)" deinterlace mode would not function properly.
Fixed: When used in a Core i7 environment, the determination of the number of CPUs would become invalid.
Fixed: An error would arise when rotating a picture in the Slideshow editor.
Coould you also make CUDA work under limited users also and not just on admin level accounts? Shouldn't be that difficult to implement, and at the same time it would be a great feature for companies that don't want to grant their users admin-level access! :)
Since version 4.6.xxx the AVI conversion does not work for me any longer. I have to roll back to the latest 4.5.xxx version to still being able to use the program. If I click on AVI output format in any of the 4.6 version (that includes the latest update) the program just hangs and I have to shut down the process.
Regardless of what file type the input file is in the newest version of the program I cannot even open the AVI conversion. Means I don't even get to the point to choose the AVI codec.
Thank you!
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>It actually hangs when I try to convert a MPEG2 file into an uncompressed AVI file. It hangs right away when I just click on AVI as output file.
It's strange that it works in 4.5 but not in 4.6. AVI output has been working the same as usual on my machine.
Couple of things you can check and try:
1) Go to Options-->Preferences-->Input/Output format list, and see if there is a "+" in the Output column for AVI and Wave. There may be a problem with the program checking the AVI encoder if there is a "-" in the output column.
2) Try deleting the system config file for 4.0 XPress. This file is typically found in "C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\Application Data\Pegasys Inc\TMPGEnc4P". In this directory, there will be a file called "TMPGEnc4XP_SystemConfig.en" You can just add a number to the name or move it to a different directory instead of deleting it. After you've done so, start up 4.0 XPress and see if AVI output works.
3) See if you have the latest version of DirectX.
4)Uninstall and reinstall 4.0 XPress. It might just be a bad install.
It may also be a codec problem. Try comparing the codec list between version 4.5 and 4.6 to see if there is a difference.
To check your AVI codec list, go to Options-->Preferences-->AVI settings.
When 4.0 XPress is started, it only checks the input codecs. Then, when you reach the Format stage and select AVI output, it checks the output codecs. Since this is where you're getting the lockups, it's reasonable to think that a codec might be the problem. However it's still odd that it would work in 4.5 and not 4.6.
Where can be found a full, and actual list, that contains all of NVIDIA VGA cards, which cards support the CUDA technology (with TMPEG 4.0 XPress naturally)?
As for being compatible with 4.0 XPress...it seems that only the GeForce8800 GTX/GTS video card using the G80 core is the only one NOT supported so far.
I use TMPGENC 4.0 XPress with NVIDIA CUDA support.
I have a simple, low-cost Geforce 8400 GS VGA with 256 MB RAM.
If I switch on the CUDA in TMPGENC, the encoding speed of TMPGENC is faster, circa 10% (90% CPU, 10 % GPU).
My question: if I buy a new, stronger VGA card, with better GPU-the speed-increasing will be higher?
I think that if you have a powerful CPU the CUDA features are not used, that is why there is no difference in the speed, I guess this CUDA features are maily to be used for filtering functions.
good luck
when I'm encoding with Mpeg2 Decoding for Cuda activated the app crashes every time. I've read the remark about the Mpeg2 decoding result. But it's just unusable.
The problem seems to be existant on all Geforce cards, with a common deliminator of the hardware accelerated MPEG2 decoding.
The problem is that TMPGEnc seems to be trying to do the decoding using CUDA, which in fact it does not need to as it is supported in Hardware via the driver interfaces.
Decoding MPEG2 in Hardware via CUDA is not the best method and probably not supported anyways.
Hi, when I'm encoding my GTX-280 is clocking down to the 2D-Clock rates, resulting in a much longer rendering process (the estimated rendering time goes up)
normaly this clock down is controled by the workload but it clocks down anyway.
It's a driver issue related to the power system regulator of the GTX200 series.
The latest drivers 181.22 address this issue but you also have to have 'preview' ON while decoding because the card ups the clock for videos and games but not just for basic desktop use which is how it is supposed to be. As long as you have these drivers and turn on 'preview' the card will use full speed to decode.
I am thinking about buying TMPGEnc Xpress to encode stuff from native HD resolution to a resolution that fits my TV best (HD Ready, 1366x768).
Until now the only optioin I found is DIVX HD 1280x700 - is there any way
to create a H.264 (or maybe a DIVX) with the above mentioned size settings?
I simply want to avoid that my TV is "upscaling" from 1280x720 by feeding it it's native resolution.
Just to make sure according to the info on this site, CUDA is only enable to help with video filters right? not encoding the video itself? Because I tried to have CUDA ecoding my videos at its 100% and so far my cpu is doing most of the work (81%) and CUDA buzzling at 19%. I didn't have any filter checked. My laptop comes with geforce 8600m GS with latest forceware. Plz clarify!
Yes, Cuda is only enabled for video filters and MPEG-1/2 decoding. So if you're not doing either of those, the output time will not be accelerated such as in the example you gave.
i have a MPEG-2 Files with the same resolution and same Audio and same Bitrate
i want to Merge tham without to encoder tham
TMPGEnc CAN DO THIS?
if yes, how i do that?
which option to mark?
here the Picture after i do File > MPEG Tools... > Merge & Cut http://up39.siz.co.il/up3/demzo5gjktyn.png
no Audio
No same bitrate
i use TMPGEnc-2.524.63.181-Free
in TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress i dont find the "Merge & Cut"
I don't think you can merge MPEG files without re-encoding them with TMPGEnc free or TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress. Try TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 3; it has what they call Smart Rendering which does minimal re-encoding.