Quick Sync decoding while encoding
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:48 pm
I'm new to MediaCoder, but after an exhaustive search of all the Quick Sync-enabled transcoders, MediaCoder seems to be the best overall.
I'm using it for transcoding on my HTPC, which has a low voltage 2nd Generation Core i3 with not a lot of grunt. But Quick Sync is fast on it.
Now, the other apps I tested (Media Espresso and the like) all offload both the decoding of the original video, plus the encoding of the new video, to Quick Sync. As far as I can tell, MediaCoder is only offloading the encoding. That appears to be slowing my transcodes down a lot (11 minutes on MediaCoder versus 4 minutes on MediaEspresso for the same transcode) due to my slowish CPU working on the decode.
So, my question is this: can I offload the decode to Quick Sync, too? If so, how? If not, are the there plans to enable that feature?
thanks,
John
MediaCoder 2011-R9-5196 with Intel plugin added by MediaCoder during original installation
I'm using it for transcoding on my HTPC, which has a low voltage 2nd Generation Core i3 with not a lot of grunt. But Quick Sync is fast on it.
Now, the other apps I tested (Media Espresso and the like) all offload both the decoding of the original video, plus the encoding of the new video, to Quick Sync. As far as I can tell, MediaCoder is only offloading the encoding. That appears to be slowing my transcodes down a lot (11 minutes on MediaCoder versus 4 minutes on MediaEspresso for the same transcode) due to my slowish CPU working on the decode.
So, my question is this: can I offload the decode to Quick Sync, too? If so, how? If not, are the there plans to enable that feature?
thanks,
John
MediaCoder 2011-R9-5196 with Intel plugin added by MediaCoder during original installation