I’ve tried it on a threadripper and it’s still way too slow. Hardware encoding is required for anything other than short clips. Use x265 for software encoding.
Which Threadripper? What preset (I am assuming this is for 1080p sources) and how much did it take to transcode 90 minutes.
I am sticking to x265 for HD content (x264 is fine for DVDRips), AV1 takes too long to encode and I didn’t see a noticeable improvement for size/quality ratio dynamics.
To be honest, I don’t even see a significant improvement with x265 (relative to x264) for content made before ~2005 or so. Grainy and older content generally requires file sizes comparable to x264 transcodes if you want to preserve grain and avoid smoothing.
It was a 1950x. I canceled the transcode after several hours and it only got though a couple minutes of 1080p video. I don’t remember the exact times, it was about 5 years ago. I haven’t bothered with AV1 since then.
Yeah, the first time I tried AV1 (on CPU) I also cancelled the transcode after 4 hours.
I was out for a few days, so I left the encode on. It was something stupid like over 50 hours for a 90 minute movie on a 5800X (this was on the slowest preset doe the AV1 encoder, since that’s what always use for x264/x265).
I would imagine Threadripper 9000 performance is notably better than the the 1950X even if you get a 16 core CPU. Going for a 32 core CPU should roughly halve the timing even further.
I’ve tried it on a threadripper and it’s still way too slow. Hardware encoding is required for anything other than short clips. Use x265 for software encoding.
Which Threadripper? What preset (I am assuming this is for 1080p sources) and how much did it take to transcode 90 minutes.
I am sticking to x265 for HD content (x264 is fine for DVDRips), AV1 takes too long to encode and I didn’t see a noticeable improvement for size/quality ratio dynamics.
To be honest, I don’t even see a significant improvement with x265 (relative to x264) for content made before ~2005 or so. Grainy and older content generally requires file sizes comparable to x264 transcodes if you want to preserve grain and avoid smoothing.
It was a 1950x. I canceled the transcode after several hours and it only got though a couple minutes of 1080p video. I don’t remember the exact times, it was about 5 years ago. I haven’t bothered with AV1 since then.
Yeah, the first time I tried AV1 (on CPU) I also cancelled the transcode after 4 hours.
I was out for a few days, so I left the encode on. It was something stupid like over 50 hours for a 90 minute movie on a 5800X (this was on the slowest preset doe the AV1 encoder, since that’s what always use for x264/x265).
I would imagine Threadripper 9000 performance is notably better than the the 1950X even if you get a 16 core CPU. Going for a 32 core CPU should roughly halve the timing even further.