Recommended Intel 4960x MC Settings?

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Recommended Intel 4960x MC Settings?

Post by willwinuk » Tue Sep 09, 2014 8:46 am

Hi,
I was wondering if people could tell me the best settings to setup in MediaCoder x64 for the 4960x and my specs please.

CPU: Intel i7 extreme 4960x
GPU: GeForce GTX 780 ti x2 (SLI)
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2133MHz (running at 1866MHz)
Mother: Asus Rampage IV Black Edition

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Re: Recommended Intel 4960x MC Settings?

Post by HuggiL » Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:02 pm

The defaults are usually good enough and to the best of my belief will scale with your system specs. If you want to check anyway, then the only area you need to look at is the "Cores Allocation" under the "Tasking" tab. You can either play around with setting the allocation manually for each of the video and audio encoders and decoders, or just tick all cores for everything and let MediaCoder use your CPU however it wants.
Another thing to note since you have NVIDIA GPUs is that if you want to use CUDA encoding for H.264, it seems to be broken if you use the GeForce 340.52 driver or later versions as NVIDIA removed CUDA support (they're pushing everyone onto NVENC). And MediaCoder doesn't support SLI either so you can only use one card for CUDA encoding.
And last thing, make sure you're using the x64 version of MediaCoder otherwise it won't take advantage of your 16GB of RAM.
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Re: Recommended Intel 4960x MC Settings?

Post by willwinuk » Wed Sep 10, 2014 7:48 am

Ok thanks. Does it sound about right that it should take around 25 mins to convert a 500mb 720p video to an MP4 with the Apple TV preset?

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Re: Recommended Intel 4960x MC Settings?

Post by HuggiL » Wed Sep 10, 2014 11:28 pm

How long is the video? That's what usually affects encoding time. Also, while the preset I gave you upscales everything to 1080p, you can always change it so that it encodes at the original smaller resolution which will probably cut down on encoding time. This will also let you drop the bitrate a small amount which will help in reducing file sizes.
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Re: Recommended Intel 4960x MC Settings?

Post by willwinuk » Thu Sep 11, 2014 8:12 am

Well the video in the example I gave above is about 57 mins, in that case I was using MediaCoders original built-in Apple TV (720p) preset.

Is these kind of times to convert normal on my specs or am I doing something wrong?

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Re: Recommended Intel 4960x MC Settings?

Post by HuggiL » Thu Sep 11, 2014 10:45 pm

That seems about right. I haven't converted a lot of long videos but taking 25 minutes to encode a 57 minute long video means you're getting around 2x encoding speed which is faster than my overclocked i7-3770K (I get around 1.4x speed with very similar settings).
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