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While I'm sympathetic to the need for the software to validate its license periodically, is there a specific schedule for when it does this? Where I work, the software is installed on kiosk computers that are meant for video editing only and should not have internet access. I have to manually connect them up to validate the software and then I disconnect them after. Is it possible to get the address of the server they dial in to? I was thinking of just leaving them connected without a gateway and then manually adding a single dns entry on the local hosts file so that the computers can only access the internet for that one thing.
Use multiavchd for your authoring. Much friendlier and will auto encode whatever files you have. Works with every subtitle format and keeps colours and annotations.
I encode using TMPGEnc and the settings give you the option of locking the video size (default is off). To me it makes sense to lock the video size but I am not totally sure as to whether I am right or not. Can anybody enlighten me please?
Hi just installed Nvida drivers 306.23 and authoring works 5 stops working. I can no longer import MPEG elementary streams in. just going to try 296.10 drivers. I can import AVis though ???
Think there is a problem here. for info if others are having issues
This has been an issue for several MONTHS now and we have heard NOTHING from the team in regards to this. Appears that we have been abandoned. Version 4 gets an update, and version 5 just gets shafted. I really feel that I wasted my money buying this program. Stick with 296.10. Or move to multiavchd, as Dean K. has started work on it again. Supports a LOT more media streams and subtitles than Authoring Works 5 ever will.
Last time I EVER buy software. Freeware has a lot more support than buyware. And freeware usually only has 1-2 people at MOST working on it. You suck Pegasys. You used to be great, but now you just appear to be ignoring your users. Way to lose any future sales.
I have the latest version of the nvidia driver 306.97 and it works fine with the version you cited evidence on the preferences menu to turn off the plg-in media fondatiOr uninstall the program and try to reinstall
Avoid installing codec packs "create conflicts with the system" only recommended if you need ffdshow aloneon and leaves sprouted all the others and see if it works.
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I think CUDA is the coolest thing since the Lisp 3.0 intrepreter! But I'm wondering if my GPU is actually being used during H.264 encode.
I select a different H.264 encoder because Nvidia doesn't allow 2 pass encoding (and why is that, BTW? Were the Nvidia programmers lazy?)
Do I have to select the Nvidia encoder in order to get GPU vector processing horsepower, even though the encoding status bar says that CUDA is doing 99% of the work?
If so, do you think that reporting "99% CUDA" when the GPU is not being used is a bug that I should report? I hate to bother these people.
Not problem with Nvidia, but in PEGASYS!
- other encoders use REAL CODING ON GPU AND 2 PASS ON CUDA
- TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5, if select CUDA, coding on GPU ONLY(!) FILTERS (and yet not all), x264 ALWAYS on CPU!
...= no 2 pass encoding on PEGASYS
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Are you guys sure that the encoding metrics are reported properly?
I'm getting 1% CPU, 99% CUDA, but all 6 CPUs are at 100% utilization and my geforce 470 is running at 3% utilization.
I know this is possible in theory, if the vector processors are vastly more efficient than the CPU and they both have to process the same frame at the same time. I assume that some tasks can only be handled by the CPU and the GPU might be spending almost all its time waiting for the CPU to catch up.
But isn't this asymmetry kind of, well, ridiculous?
Maybe it doesn't matter because I'll get my edited porn eventually no matter what the metrics say. But if there's an optimization problem somewhere that prevents my GPU from encoding the video at ultra-speed, I want to to fix it, and anyway, I'd like to think that the numbers I'm looking at are accurate.
Does anyone else notice the CPU being maxed and the GPU almost idle, even though it says CUDA is doing most of the work?
TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5, if select CUDA, coding on GPU ONLY(!) FILTERS (and yet not all), x264 ALWAYS on CPU! = no 2 pass encoding on PEGASYS
B.
p.s. ...others SW coding x264 Cuda 2pass no problem
If you want to encode with Cuda, you have to select it as the encoder (default is x264), otherwise it will only be used for filters. You cannot use two encoders at the same time.
No 2-pass for cuda encoding though.
However, there is a 2-pass option in the preferences for the x264 encoder.
I have a NVIDEA CUDA enabled graphics card. I noticed that there are three Video Encoder options for encoding to a MPEG-4(AVC)file. The options are as follows:
- CUDA
- Intel Media SDK Software
- x264
I want to take advantage of improved processing acceleration by using CUDA with my NVIDIA graphics card but I also want the file to be encoded using the H.264/AVC encoder. Therefore if I select CUDA, will the output file still be encoded with the H.264 encoder? It is unclear to me since there are no additional options for selecting the H.264 encoder if I select CUDA.
Based upon the description of the "NVIDIA CUDA H.264 Encoding" option, as described on the PEGASYS website (and as shown below), I am assuming that if I select CUDA the file will still be encoded using the H.264 encoder?
NVIDIA CUDA H.264 Encoding.
Not Just for Filtering Anymore.
In addition to CUDA-enabled filter processing and decoding, TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5 supports H.264/AVC file output using the CUDA technology provided by NVIDIA. The CUDA technology makes use of the GPU (graphic board CPU) with multi-core parallel processing to process complex calculation problems in a short time. By splitting the processes into parallel elements, and using the massive processing power, the program can run even more effectively. Using this function with a compatible graphic board improves processing acceleration when compared with CPU-only use in most cases.
I'm not quite sure if I understand what you're asking. Each one of those 3 are H.264/AVC encoders; you are selecting the H.264 encoding engine. If you want to use CUDA for H.264 encoding, then select CUDA and it will use CUDA's H.264 encoder.
Selecting the other two will use them as the H.264 encoder, and CUDA will only be used for filter processing.
From my recent reading about CUDA 2/2013 there is a serious trade-off in image quality for the limited speed gained by using CUDA. If you know of actual image quality improvements, then please post to this thread or start one about it detailing exactly how to do this.
I've yet to read where CUDA is improving image quality at the high-end of HD.
I'll ask the same about filters too... does anyone know which CUDA filters equal or improve image quality over CPU vs GPU/CUDA saving time but getting a lower quality image.
I'll also mention, the CUDA SDK is up to version 5.0+ at the NVIDIA website, but I think TPMG5 is only using version 3.1 SDK CUDA as of 2/2013... anyone know otherwise?
Anyway, please report about image quality improvements using CUDA and saving encoding time. Which filters specifically... which NVIDIA card you need to do it too... I'm currently very skeptical about CUDA having read a few detailed articles of recent CUDA software reviews. That's 3-4 years now of development time without much gain, if any, in high-quality output from the reviews I read.