Vaulter98c
[H]ard|DCer of the Month - October 2009
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OK, so I'm currently deployed again and I've been playing around with a few different ideas to help conserve space on my Media collection I brought with me (currently sharing with my squad from a 12 TB NAS).
I'm really getting behind 265 encodes for HD TV shows, which from the torrents I've found seem to be about 500-600 MB a piece for an approx hour episode of a TV show and looks pretty good to me. I've got a ton of other shows that I've ripped from BluRay's in the past and using my old 264 settings those are between 2 and 4 GB an episode. I was toying around the idea of re-encoding some of my much higher quality rips and getting them into smaller file sizes so I installed the latest 64 bit version of Handbrake on both my gamer laptop and my torrent box laptop (a small 11 inch dell with a 6th gen dual core i7)
I tested a few settings out in short 30 second encodes on the torrent box and now I'm trying to do full episodes on my gamer laptop to see what the actual space savings would be and to see the results on a better 1080p screen to see if it's up to standards. My gamer laptop is significantly more powerful then my torrent box so I have no idea why this is happening. When I run encodes I will always cap at exactly 50% CPU usage on all cores/threads and won't even ramp up the CPU to base clock or the boost speeds. It literally sits at 50% usage and about 1.4-1.5 Ghz speed. I've confirmed I'm not using Intel QuickSync or anything. The power profile is set to high and there is no CPU caps on or anything. When I play games it has no problem ramping up and getting hot, fast, and loading all the cores. I can run burn test forever so it's not unstable, it's going to and from a PCIe NVME drive so it's not disk related. Running the latest 64 bit build (1.1.1) from their website today, can't figure this out after spending like 30 minutes on google. Does this on x265 as well as x264 encodes, doesn't matter if I say fast, medium, very slow for the profile, same result every time. Also, changing the app priority in the settings menu does nothing except make windows laggy, but it still lags at 50% CPU at 1.4 Ghz in "very high" priority
Please help me lol
TLDR;
Specs :
i7 6820 HK (4c/8t , 2.7 ghz base, 3.60 ghz boost)
https://ark.intel.com/products/88969/Intel-Core-i7-6820HK-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_60-GHz
16 GB 3000 DDR4
512 WD Black PCIe NVME drive for storage
Latest 1.1.1 64 bit Handbrake build
Latest Win10 Pro with all drivers and updates applied
Not using Intel QS or any GPU assistance for the encodes
Machine is burn test, mining, and gaming stable, never crashed outside of 1 known destiny bug a few months back
No OC's on CPU or RAM (or GPU, not that that matters)
Doesnt matter if 265 or 264, or if fast, medium, or very slow, same results every time
Can not figure this out
And yes, I know I should never re-encode already encoded rips, blah blah blah, it's good enough for me for TV shows and can literally help me shave like 1+ TB off my collection if I can get this to work right
I'm really getting behind 265 encodes for HD TV shows, which from the torrents I've found seem to be about 500-600 MB a piece for an approx hour episode of a TV show and looks pretty good to me. I've got a ton of other shows that I've ripped from BluRay's in the past and using my old 264 settings those are between 2 and 4 GB an episode. I was toying around the idea of re-encoding some of my much higher quality rips and getting them into smaller file sizes so I installed the latest 64 bit version of Handbrake on both my gamer laptop and my torrent box laptop (a small 11 inch dell with a 6th gen dual core i7)
I tested a few settings out in short 30 second encodes on the torrent box and now I'm trying to do full episodes on my gamer laptop to see what the actual space savings would be and to see the results on a better 1080p screen to see if it's up to standards. My gamer laptop is significantly more powerful then my torrent box so I have no idea why this is happening. When I run encodes I will always cap at exactly 50% CPU usage on all cores/threads and won't even ramp up the CPU to base clock or the boost speeds. It literally sits at 50% usage and about 1.4-1.5 Ghz speed. I've confirmed I'm not using Intel QuickSync or anything. The power profile is set to high and there is no CPU caps on or anything. When I play games it has no problem ramping up and getting hot, fast, and loading all the cores. I can run burn test forever so it's not unstable, it's going to and from a PCIe NVME drive so it's not disk related. Running the latest 64 bit build (1.1.1) from their website today, can't figure this out after spending like 30 minutes on google. Does this on x265 as well as x264 encodes, doesn't matter if I say fast, medium, very slow for the profile, same result every time. Also, changing the app priority in the settings menu does nothing except make windows laggy, but it still lags at 50% CPU at 1.4 Ghz in "very high" priority
Please help me lol
TLDR;
Specs :
i7 6820 HK (4c/8t , 2.7 ghz base, 3.60 ghz boost)
https://ark.intel.com/products/88969/Intel-Core-i7-6820HK-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_60-GHz
16 GB 3000 DDR4
512 WD Black PCIe NVME drive for storage
Latest 1.1.1 64 bit Handbrake build
Latest Win10 Pro with all drivers and updates applied
Not using Intel QS or any GPU assistance for the encodes
Machine is burn test, mining, and gaming stable, never crashed outside of 1 known destiny bug a few months back
No OC's on CPU or RAM (or GPU, not that that matters)
Doesnt matter if 265 or 264, or if fast, medium, or very slow, same results every time
Can not figure this out
And yes, I know I should never re-encode already encoded rips, blah blah blah, it's good enough for me for TV shows and can literally help me shave like 1+ TB off my collection if I can get this to work right
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