Sorry about all the trouble you're having. It actually would have been better if you started a new discussion becuase this was regarding the Sept 2020 update and newer versions have been relesed since then.

To your issue, thanks very much for including the DxDiag report.

It shows that some important drivers are several years out of date, and the best way to get your Dell laptop up-to-date is to visit their support page and choose the Detect Driver option. Install all the recommended updates and then reboot.

The DxDiag results also show lots of crashes of 2 different version of PD19, so make sure you have the latest version (2325) installed.

As a test, download the test project from this OneDrive folder (no need to sign up/login) and open up the Forum Test Project + title and see if things work normally. You can also try producing to H.264 AVC MPEG-4 1920 x 1080/30p (16Mbps) to see how long it takes.

Where and what is Dynamic GOP?

Quote Where and what is Dynamic GOP?

Where: it's shown exactly where in the PD19 Profile Video.png pic, https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/83375.page#post_box_344165

What: An encoding feature to change the group of pictures, GOP, from a fixed I frame interval to a dynamic I frame interval based on encode complexity. An I frame is a picture that is coded independently of all other pictures in the GOP sequence.

Jeff

Quote Where: it's shown exactly where in the PD19 Profile Video.png pic, https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/83375.page#post_box_344165

What: An encoding feature to change the group of pictures, GOP, from a fixed I frame interval to a dynamic I frame interval based on encode complexity. An I frame is a picture that is coded independently of all other pictures in the GOP sequence.

Jeff

I should mention, last time I looked at dynamic GOP in PD I was less than impressed, https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/82544.page#post_box_340050 . I've not found any bit of info in CL online manual, help system, old user guides..... anyplace that documents anything about PD's implemented feature. One can Google plenty of articles and papers that discuss the details of dynamic GOP, but unclear what CL truly implemented.

A retest of some H.264 and H.265 footage in PD20 with and without dynamic GOP resulted in the same fixed GOP pattern between the two encodes so I have no further resolution to the feature as implemented in PD.

Jeff

This is not good as I just tested the sample cips Skateboard 01.mp4 and then replaced it with Sports 01.jpg so the total length is 10 second Is used in my cpu encoding test. Used the default h.264 mp4 1080p30 16Mbps. Results are 18978 KB and 1724 KB. Edited the encoded profile to enable Dynamic GOP and results are 18967 KB and 1724 KB respectively. The GOP pattern is the same as reported by mediainfo. Slightly lower bitrate on the video with Dynamic GOP checked.

Dynamic GOP may have worked 4 years ago in PD16. See this tutorial at 10:08: https://youtu.be/8cT-UCFWOQc?t=608 . Let hope that Cyberlink fix it if this was the case in the past.

Quote Dynamic GOP may have worked 4 years ago in PD16. See this tutorial at 10:08: https://youtu.be/8cT-UCFWOQc?t=608 . Let hope that Cyberlink fix it if this was the case in the past.

I saw absolutely no indication that it worked in that video, other than he checked it. Same as the video in the link I had supplied. In fact, his description around your specified time slice is just wrong! He states "Dynamic GOP allows the decorder to improve compression..." is just flat wrong. He specifically states decoder and it has NOTHING to do with decoding. No excuse, decoding can't be interjected for encoding.

Jeff