Thumbs up for "Output to DVD" feature

[antonsvideo]

in my case, hyperthreading speeds all software except for DVD creator, but I am not concerned since I don't really use it

60 min timeline to DVD Creator with hyperthreading = 2 hours and 40 min

60 min timeline to DVD Creator without hyperthreading = 40 min

[GrassValley_BH]

No, I run my XP the same way (Maximum Performance, Windows Classic theme)... I asked because disabling Hyperthreading helped your performance.

In Windows 2000, the kernel doesn't differentiate between physical and HT cores, so it'd allocate jobs between the first physical core and its HT core instead of between the first physical core and second physical core.

Windows XP doesn't (shouldn't?) have this problem...

[antonsvideo]

yes, XP Pro with Sp2

I disabled the pretty looks of XP for max performance, that is why you think I use 2000, correct?

[GrassValley_BH]

Anton - that machine is running XP and not 2000, right?

[SRsupport]

Time to upgrade Anton?

Xeon E5450 xeon quad 3 ghz 1333fsb with 12mb l2 cache? [ $969 a pice hyperthreading is a thing of the past :) ]

[antonsvideo]

I turned off hyperthreading

now DVD creator is fast and uses 100% of processors

http://www.videoproductions.com.au/edius45/hyperthreading-off.gif

but ProCoder and PCE and Tmpeg4 are way slower now

[antonsvideo]

It looks like you have some sort of a computer problem going on.

Sebastian

export of this 60 min timeline to DV.avi takes 3 min and 20 seconds

export of this 60 min timeline to DVD using ProCoder3 at normal quality takes 37 min

there must be something that DVD creator does not like, I bet it is the hyperthreading

I have 2 physical processors and with hyperthreading enabled I get 4

Tmpeg 4 Xpress works 40% faster with hyperthreading enabled because it is optimized for multiple CPU and hyperthreading

I will disable hyperthreading and repeat the DVD Creator test

[Sebastian]

Hi Anton

Just did the same test as yours, inserted 1 sec. colorbar each 15 min.
toghter with a chapter point.

The redering speed was fast... 11 min. and 54 sec. for one hour.
doing the redering I check the cpu and ram use, both cpu´s where running
between 98-100 % most of the time, only at the last 30% of the rendering
they where falling to about 40%.
the ram use was 1 gb.

I also play the rendered files in power dvd, and the chaptors was right on
the colorbars.

It looks like you have some sort of a computer problem going on.

Sebastian

[shueardm]

Maybe for once the PAL guys get lucky?

[Mr Bill]

I have only used the 'output to DVD' 3 times and each time the chapters were spot on.
Those DVDs were under 90min in length.

60min timeline takes me about 20min to encode with the 'output to DVD' feature.
I used CBR @ 7500 with AC3 Audio.

[antonsvideo]

test export finally finished

tested in PowerDVD, all chapters are correct, right on the color bars

[antonsvideo]

Did you have any effect on the timeline ?

Sebastian

I placed absolutely nothing on the timeline except for a color bar clip for 1 sec every 15 min and I added a marker in the middle of each 1 sec clip

maybe it does not like exporting blank spaces, it should but

20 min to go, so I may as well let it finish

processor usage is 15-25%

[Sebastian]

I just placed a 1 hours and 30 min. dv-avi file on the timeline and ajusted
it to 1 hours and inserted 6 markers.
In the dvd program I used all default settings.
I checked the "render filers without burning a dvd".

it took 27 min and 21 sec. on my centrino E6850 cpu with 2 gb ram and
standard sataII hd.

Did you have any effect on the timeline ?

Sebastian

[antonsvideo]

something is not right, I started a 60min test project to test chapters, it has been going for 1 hour and 45 min and it says 55 min remaining

is there a setting to speed this up in a Dual Xeon machine

Tmpeg would take 40min to do the lot

[Sebastian]

There is one problem with the DVD App , when you make chapter pionts they do not work , if you try to change they still do not work, this has been confirmed, other than that bug the quatly and speed is very good. For me ,I would like to have the chapter pionts working and do not always have the time or want to have to go to Encore or PPro2 to author out.
just my 2cents

On my machine the markers seems to translate very well, last week I did
a dvd for a theater show where each chapter had to be right on the spot, no problems so far.

Are you working with different seqences doing editing ?
If so you have to be sure to select the proper seqence on the first menu page
in the dvd program, otherwise it will use seq. 1.

Sebastian