PD8 Hardware Acceleration now works with .WMV file formats?

OnTheWeb1

Contributor Location: Michigan USA Joined: Jan 02, 2009 12:58 Messages: 511 Offline

Solved by

Apr 17, 2010 18:50

I thought this happened once before, and I couldn't duplicate it. It happened again today, I was able to get a screen capture of it in action.

When you go to render a video, if you click first on AVCHD output format and make sure hardware rendering is selected, you can then switch to WMV output format, and the hardware rendering option stays engaged. I was unaware PD8 could accelerate WMV encoding.

By the speed it rendered, it appears to be sped up by the hardware encoding.

Anyone else seen this?

Photo is attached.


Filename	WMVHardwareEncoding.png	Download
Description
Filesize	72 Kbytes
Downloaded:	344 time(s)

Win8 64-bit Pro Retail
Intel i7-4770
16GB DDR3 1600 8-8-8-24
MSI Z87-G45 Motherboard
ASUS GTX 660 Direct CU II OC 2GB GPU
1 TB RAID 1 (mirrored) Drive Array
Several scratch drives for video, TMP, pagefile.

Robert2 S

Senior Contributor Location: Australia Joined: Apr 22, 2009 05:57 Messages: 1461 Offline

Apr 18, 2010 00:37

Well I just tried your tip and for me as soon as I move from AVC to .wmv acceleration is greyed out.

My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Apr 18, 2010 01:22

Ditto Robert -

There must be something special about yours, OTW

Cheers - Tony
Visit PDtoots. PowerDirector Tutorials, tips, free resources & more. Subscribe!
Full linked Tutorial Catalog PDtoots happily supports fellow PowerDirector users!

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Apr 18, 2010 01:46

Based on the systems I have, it's a PD and ATI feature. I bet Robert and Tony have Nvidia and OTW as listed has ATI.

Jeff

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Apr 18, 2010 02:02

Sounds like a reasonably safe bet, Jeff. Nvidia here.
Visit PDtoots. PowerDirector Tutorials, tips, free resources & more. Subscribe!
Full linked Tutorial Catalog PDtoots happily supports fellow PowerDirector users!

vn800rider

Senior Contributor Location: Darwen, UK Joined: May 15, 2008 04:32 Messages: 1949 Offline

Apr 18, 2010 02:26

My ATi Radeon 4650 1Gb makes .wmv hardware acceleration available for me but restricted to WMV9 profiles.

Cheers
Adrian Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (see below)
Confucius
AMD Phenom IIX6 1055T, win10, 5 internal drives, 7 usb drives, struggling power supply.

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Apr 18, 2010 03:00

That's a 5 star post Steve. Shame I don't have an ATI card ha ha. Good to know it's been confirmed.

Dafydd
[Moderator]

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Apr 18. 2010 03:00

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Apr 18, 2010 12:09

I might be off base but perhaps the following is going on. To my knowledge, ATI Avivo technology ONLY supports full gpu encoding to h264 and mpeg2 streams. However, there is a fine line with full gpu encoding and just gpu transcoding if source and target codecs are very similar. ATI supports gpu transcoding for h264, vc1, wmv9, and mpeg2 formats. It appears from playing around some that this might be the case. Your particular setup and source footage may produce differing observations, who knows.

Jeff

OnTheWeb1

Contributor Location: Michigan USA Joined: Jan 02, 2009 12:58 Messages: 511 Offline

Apr 18, 2010 12:48

Its definitely WMV9, and only certain profiles

I have confirmed it is accelerating the encoding process. When you turn it off, the encoding process slows dramatically.

This is a dilemma. I've held off upgrading my video card because I do a lot of youtube uploading which, in the past, has not benefited from the PD8 youtube encoding which is WMV. Temporarily, I switched to AVCHD and then just manually uploaded to YT.

Now, it looks like I can go back to the automatic uploading and also get the hardware encoding benefit.

Might be a 5000-series ATI card in my future after all. Win8 64-bit Pro Retail
Intel i7-4770
16GB DDR3 1600 8-8-8-24
MSI Z87-G45 Motherboard
ASUS GTX 660 Direct CU II OC 2GB GPU
1 TB RAID 1 (mirrored) Drive Array
Several scratch drives for video, TMP, pagefile.

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Apr 19, 2010 18:19

I suspect my comments in the post above about transcoding are in fact correct and what is taking place. I found this comment on CL website.

"PowerDirector ensures faster video decoding and transcoding for high-definition content. By leveraging ATI Stream technology PowerDirector accelerates the conversion of standard and HD video content."

Jeff