Bozo
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Anything that has a flame can be asphyxiating.
You just need to be careful. The heater has plenty of fresh air to it and I have carbon monoxcide detectors in the house. Plus a monitored fire alarm system.
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Anything that has a flame can be asphyxiating.
You just need to be careful. The heater has plenty of fresh air to it and I have carbon monoxcide detectors in the house. Plus a monitored fire alarm system.
mubs
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Someone told me recently that huge deposits of gas are being found, and installations to purify and package it are being built. He also said gas prices were recently delinked from crude prices because of the abundance of new gas finds. I have no way to corroborate what he said.
Bozo
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They are drilling like mad for gas here in PA.
Stereodude
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Probably no one cares, but H.264 / AVC encoding is quite a bit faster in a 64-bit OS than it is in a 32-bit OS when using x264. In my tests the identical compression job was 25% faster in Win 7 x64 than under Win XP x86. :bomb:
ddrueding
Fixture
That is impressive, Stereodude. I'm considering running some compression on my BDs that have been ripped using MakeMKV; they are averaging 27GB a piece, and that gets big, fast.
BingBangBop
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How do you know that the performance increase was the x64 capability as opposed to other differences between XP and Win 7?
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I generally re-encode BDs down to somewhere between 6 and 10GB.
Stereodude
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No... But I thought it was generally accepted that Windows 7 is slower than XP though.
Stereodude
Not really a
I should probably point out that I used a full x64 chain of applications under Windows 7 x64, not just a x64 version of the encoder (which you can't really do anyhow since 32bit apps can't call a x64 app).
Under XP I used DGDecNV (2039), AVIsynth 2.58, and x264 (1947). Under Win 7 x64 I used DGDecNV x64 (2039), AVIsynth 2.58 x64, and x264 x64 (1947).
I also used x264 directly from the command line with a .bat file (no 3rd party front end).
The two passes under XP x86 took 1107 minutes to complete. Under Windows 7 x64 the two passes took 830 minutes to complete.
Stereodude
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I generally target 25025314816 bytes.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
For typical desktop applications I'm sure that's true. You're doing something that's entirely CPU bound and Microsoft has been screaming and stomping its feet for years that Vista and 7 are faster than XP due to kernel-level improvements that typically don't mean crap when there's tons of extra overhead for operations outside the kernel.
Stereodude
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Well according to this review the improvement with x264 HD Benchmark 3.0 is pretty negligible (comparing XP 32-bit to Win 7 32-bit).
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Fatwah on Western Digital
That doesn't mean that the 64-bit version of that program couldn't have much better optimization.
BingBangBop
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XP may be generally slightly slower, however on any given specific test it is quite possible for Win 7 to have been optimized to do well.
Stereodude
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Yeah, well... You'll have to understand that I'm not planning to install XP x64 and Windows 7 x86 (32-bit), get them all set up, and spend up to 18 hours encoding just to add some additional data points to this comparison. ;-)
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I have a ton of Windows 7 x32 machines here in my office but they're all old C2D machines. I have a Server 2003 x64 system but the hardware isn't close enough to anything else be meaningful for this kind of comparison.
Looking at how my classroom machines perform under XP, Vista and 7 is absolutely where I can see that XP is the performance champ for general purpose use.
ddrueding
Fixture
Wow, that is a lot of work, Stereodude. I was considering just sending it to Handbrake or Format Factory.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Handbrake is what I use. I've been very happy with it. I do two passes at constant bitrate and most of the options bumped way, way up. File size is a judgment call. 6GB for short, animated features and 10GB for long visual spectacles like Return of the King.
ddrueding
Fixture
I just sent an MKV to Handbrake and MPC-HC couldn't render the result? I'll try another preset and try again.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Are you sure Handbrake didn't just crash before it finished? That does happen sometimes.
ddrueding
Fixture
I'm not. Does it log that anywhere?
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Fatwah on Western Digital
It tells me that it has incomplete items in its queue if I restart it after a crash.
Stereodude
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Which is why I won't be doing it. I'm getting a 25% speedup. I'm not so concerned about which part of the change from x86 to x64 is responsible for the speedup.
ddrueding
Fixture
Sorry, my post was late. I was referring to all the programs you are using for your compression in the first place.
Stereodude
Not really a
Well, I started out with an integrated front end that automated the whole process and didn't like that I couldn't change some of the option, so now I do it all manually. The process is actually more involved. First there's decrypting, then demuxing, then the encoding process I listed, next you remux, then author.
ddrueding
Fixture
Yeah, I'd rather just rip with MakeMKV, leave it alone, and buy more drives
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Fatwah on Western Digital
If you're going to leave a 30GB file alone, why not just leave the data as a .MT2S? They're playable in VLC if you have AnyDVD installed.
ddrueding
Fixture
The MKV files play nicely in MPC-HC, which is the same app I use for everything else. MakeMKV, in my experience, is the fastest, easiest, and most successful method of getting DVDs and BRs into single files. No AnyDVD, no special anything.
ddrueding
Fixture
Which guys?
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The bastards. He wrote it.
ddrueding
Fixture
Ah....I hate those guys.
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