FireCoder Blu

[THoff]

Originally Posted by Thor

It is about 4 times faster than I'm used to! 42 minutes on the timeline took 42 minutes to encode! It took about 20 more minutes to do the menu encode, so this is a great increase in speed.

That "menu encode" includes multiplexing and image building, you should be able to cut that down using a faster drive (preferably a SSD).

[Thor]

Point taken!

I'm just happy with the much speedier encodes!

I burned a BR disc using the FCB encoded files, and compared it to a disc burned from the same timeline, with only the previous software encode.

I couldn't tell any difference in quality. Both looked great.

[GrassValley_BH]

Originally Posted by swsw1550

I owned a couple of the cards when they where released, you can only just try it in the different slots, from memory some slots 2X 4X 8X 16X worked on some boards and not others, it was a bit of a hit and miss sought of thing, my supermicro board X8DAH+ does not like the card, doesn't work in any slots, thats why i got rid of them.. hope this helps.

Yup, while x1 cards are supposed to work fine in x4, x8 and x16 slots, the real world tells us that for various reasons, some motherboards are just plain picky about where certain devices sit. Most likely it's similar to the old resource allocation problems we had with IRQs and DMA channels. :)

[swsw1550]

You are spot on!

Steve