Nero 8 - Recode and Quad Cores

[Major_A]

Anyone here know if the new Nero 8 Recode will use all four cores? If you have a quad core would you please install the demo and see if it will use all the cores? I wanted to convert my DVD of Saving Private Ryan from DVD to x264. Also I wanted to resize it to 1280X720. I started the process and well it is taking a lot longer than I anticipated.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/ssb2121/Time4ANewCPU.png

[Den Leiw]

wanted to convert my DVD of Saving Private Ryan from DVD to x264. Also I wanted to resize it to 1280X720.

Don't have a quad, nor Nero 8 but why would you want to resize a 720x480 movie up to 1280x720. That's why it's taking so long and you will lose a lot of quality.

[Bootup05]

Also disable Video Preview to make it go faster :)

[Major_A]

Don't have a quad, nor Nero 8 but why would you want to resize a 720x480 movie up to 1280x720. That's why it's taking so long and you will lose a lot of quality.
Don't lose a lot of quality. You can set the bitrate to any size you want. I have done the same process with Black Hawk Down and it looks pretty good to me. I am resizing it to HDTV because in the near future I am going to be buying a HDTV. These files are on my HTPC so it's not like I am making them into a x264 file then burning them to a DVD.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/ssb2121/NeroRcHDTVOptions.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/ssb2121/BHD-NRcA.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/ssb2121/BHD-NRcB.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/ssb2121/BHD-NRcC.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/ssb2121/BHD-NRcD.jpg


Also disable Video Preview to make it go faster
Video preview doesn't add to the time. Believe me I've been using Recode for a year now. I've tried with it off and on and there is no difference. I found it strange too because other programs are faster with it off.

[Den Leiw]

Well you can give it as much bitrate as you want it won't improve the quality over what the DVD already has to offer.
I hope you know what you are doing, because while it may still look reasonable on your current computer, it may look a lot worse on your HDTV because of a higher resolution. (look at those soldiers in the background, they look blurry)
My advise would be to encode it at a resolution lower than 720x480 with correct Aspect Ratio because your HDTV is gonna do the upscaling anyway.

Just give it a try, it will speed up the encoding process by a lot and soldiers in the background will look less blurry.


Sorry for being somewhat off topic though^^
Hope someone will answer your question about multithreading

[XS Janus]

My friend has a Q6600 and he reported a normal avi file ripperd from DVD in duration of 85min took 22min to recode and burn onto DVD video disk for his viewing pleasure :D

I can ask him to try and resize the frame size and try a different higher bitrate if hehas the time.

[Major_A]

If I use AutoGK and rip the movie to a XviD 700MB the process takes about a hour and a half.

I suspect those soldiers in the background are blurry because they wanted to focus on the actor in the shot. I understand that increasing the bitrate won't do anything to the original file I was pointing out that the file is about the size of two blank CDs and the quality looks fine to me. The reason I uploaded that last pic is because it looks around the same time frame as the one Hilbert always posts at Guru3D when he explores the HD playback of a card. And now that I look for his example I can't find it, go figure.

[DBZ33]

I used a Q6600 @ 3.0GHz. Recode used all 4 cores but didn't max it out. When I use Nero Vision to make my Divx files into DVD it uses up to 88% of my 4 cores. Huge improvment from my E6600 dual core. Hope that helps you.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/dbz33/HULK.jpg
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l81/dbz33/Entourage.jpg

[Major_A]

Thank you for taking the time to upload that. Lately I've been messing around with a lot of video files and this Operton doesn't seem to be cutting the mustard. I thought I read somewhere that since DivX 6.6 (I think the new one is 6.7) it is able to use up to 4 cores.