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ATi GPU MPEG-2 Encoding
Andrew - Wales, UK
Contributor Location: Wales, UK Joined: Jan 27, 2009 19:16 Messages: 545 Offline
[Post New] May 09, 2014 05:27
Hi all,

I've recently bought a new PC, spec below. I've had a NVIDIA GPU for years but originally my last PC came with an ATi GPU. I'm pretty sure you could use the ATi to encode MPEG-2 a few years back as well as h.264 and MP4 but now it seems you can't encode MPEG-2 anymore, or certainly you can't with my new ATi. I seem to remember having to download two applications for my old ATi to work with PD, the driver and AVIVO (I think!) but now it's just the driver.

My new ATi works fine with H.264 and MP4 but no support for MPEG-2. Any comments?

Cheers,

Andrew Alienware Aurora ALX R4 - Intel i7-4820 4.2 GHz - 32GB DDR3 RAM - Crucial 512GB SSD - 1TB Seagate HDD - 3TB WD Green HDD - 4TB WD Green HDD - MSI NVIDIA GTX 1070 8GB

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CubbyHouseFilms
Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne, Australia Joined: Jul 14, 2009 04:23 Messages: 2208 Offline
[Post New] May 09, 2014 05:37
Quote: Hi all,
I've recently bought a new PC, spec below. I've had a NVIDIA GPU for years but originally my last PC came with an ATi GPU. I'm pretty sure you could use the ATi to encode MPEG-2 a few years back as well as h.264 and MP4 but now it seems you can't encode MPEG-2 anymore, or certainly you can't with my new ATi. I seem to remember having to download two applications for my old ATi to work with PD, the driver and AVIVO (I think!) but now it's just the driver.
My new ATi works fine with H.264 and MP4 but no support for MPEG-2. Any comments?
Cheers,
Andrew


No idea Andrew, but great rig Happing editing

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Carl312
Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline
[Post New] May 09, 2014 08:56
Hello Andrew,

I have a ATI video card, there is no MPEG-2 Hardware encoding.

AVC, MP4, MKV and WMV all have hardware encoding with the ATI Video card.

I have Catalyst 13.12 version driver installed.

Carl

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PlaySound
Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline
[Post New] May 09, 2014 14:59
My ATI HD 6750 card has MPEG2 encoder and works with PD, but always caused the most perceived problems, interlacing reversed for MPEG2 videos.
Currently CPU with 8 cores the process is faster without using this feature.
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Andrew - Wales, UK
Contributor Location: Wales, UK Joined: Jan 27, 2009 19:16 Messages: 545 Offline
[Post New] May 22, 2014 06:54
No idea Andrew, but great rig


Yes I am pleased with it!


Cheers,

Andrew

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at Jun 21. 2014 13:26

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PlaySound
Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline
[Post New] Jun 21, 2014 13:54
sorry my mistake

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at Jun 21. 2014 14:03

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PlaySound
Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline
[Post New] Jun 21, 2014 14:00
Quote: Hi all,

I've recently bought a new PC, spec below. I've had a NVIDIA GPU for years but originally my last PC came with an ATi GPU. I'm pretty sure you could use the ATi to encode MPEG-2 a few years back as well as h.264 and MP4 but now it seems you can't encode MPEG-2 anymore, or certainly you can't with my new ATi. I seem to remember having to download two applications for my old ATi to work with PD, the driver and AVIVO (I think!) but now it's just the driver.

My new ATi works fine with H.264 and MP4 but no support for MPEG-2. Any comments?

Cheers,

Andrew


I do not know what changed, if PD12 or PD12 combination with catalyst 14.4.
In PD10 MPEG2 has "HA", not to WMV.
In PD12 not MPEG2, yes to WMV, check out the screenshot shows the options for PD12.
http://youtu.be/DnzEcCnIvPo

Here the process is fast but without use of "HA", however the CPU usage goes to 100% with "HA" enabled reduce to 30% "CPU" AMD-FX 8350 / 8GB DDR3
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Andrew - Wales, UK
Contributor Location: Wales, UK Joined: Jan 27, 2009 19:16 Messages: 545 Offline
[Post New] Jun 21, 2014 15:03
Quote:

Here the process is fast but without use of "HA", however the CPU usage goes to 100% with "HA" enabled reduce to 30% "CPU"


Indeed, CPU usage is a lot lower with HA enabled than when it is not. My CPU usage is around the 70% mark without HA and 30% with HA. My old PC used to go up to 99% with the first gen i7 but I've never been a fan of maxing a CPU for extended periods which is why I always preferred to use HA. It's not quite as much of an issue with my new PC.

Andrew
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Andrew - Wales, UK
Contributor Location: Wales, UK Joined: Jan 27, 2009 19:16 Messages: 545 Offline
[Post New] Jun 27, 2014 15:48
Hi,

As a test, I rendered a 42 minute piece of HDV footage I shot in 2006 using the MP4 1920x1080 25p 16mbps.

Without HA, the CPU was at 98% and it took 17min 29sec to render.

With HA, the CPU was at 20-30% with GPU now being utilised and it rendered in 17min 38sec.

I think for the sake of 9 seconds I'll keep using the HA !

Cheers,

Andrew Alienware Aurora ALX R4 - Intel i7-4820 4.2 GHz - 32GB DDR3 RAM - Crucial 512GB SSD - 1TB Seagate HDD - 3TB WD Green HDD - 4TB WD Green HDD - MSI NVIDIA GTX 1070 8GB

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