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<blockquote data-quote="velis" data-source="post: 503263" data-attributes="member: 96429">[USER=70031]drealit[/USER]: Those are my encodes. It took me a month of trying out various x264 parameters so that my camera encodes look their best. I have no idea which parameters mess up the encode since the documentation isn't exactly full of &quot;Watch out, this one screws up DXVA&quot; warnings.[USER=10858]tourettes[/USER]: Just today I was buying some 10 blu ray movies. One of them was the latest transformers (preorder, but I have time). Now, I would gladly listen to your advice, but that particular movie comes on three (3) discs and it's not the only one with such ridiculous amount of data. That's either 3x50 or 3x25GB. Although I have 3x1.5TB disks in my HTPC, I don't think they would last very long with that kind of space requirements. And I'm sure not watching the movies through discs. They would just scratch and fail sooner rather than later. Plus I'm no fan of swapping discs in the middle of an action scene. It just ruins the experience for me. I will definitely transcode those movies as well. I believe 10-15GB x264 2pass transcode yields a good enough quality for me (note that I'm only getting a full HD TV next month so I may need to up the bitrate a bit) while also ensuring a more than necessary backup copy of a particular movie. With current prices I have no intention of re-purchasing them.(I hope I didn't just say something incriminating - I believe it's within my rights to make a backup copy of a movie, please correct me if I'm wrong)I'm still waiting for OpenCL to fix the situation a bit. In the mean time (less than a year, hopefully) I'm just going to have to bear with a skipped frame or two. It feels a waste that I would now buy a new MB+CPU+RAM just to fix this when the old setup can still cope with good outlook for situation improvement in the near future.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="velis, post: 503263, member: 96429"] [USER=70031]drealit[/USER]: Those are my encodes. It took me a month of trying out various x264 parameters so that my camera encodes look their best. I have no idea which parameters mess up the encode since the documentation isn't exactly full of "Watch out, this one screws up DXVA" warnings. [USER=10858]tourettes[/USER]: Just today I was buying some 10 blu ray movies. One of them was the latest transformers (preorder, but I have time). Now, I would gladly listen to your advice, but that particular movie comes on three (3) discs and it's not the only one with such ridiculous amount of data. That's either 3x50 or 3x25GB. Although I have 3x1.5TB disks in my HTPC, I don't think they would last very long with that kind of space requirements. And I'm sure not watching the movies through discs. They would just scratch and fail sooner rather than later. Plus I'm no fan of swapping discs in the middle of an action scene. It just ruins the experience for me. I will definitely transcode those movies as well. I believe 10-15GB x264 2pass transcode yields a good enough quality for me (note that I'm only getting a full HD TV next month so I may need to up the bitrate a bit) while also ensuring a more than necessary backup copy of a particular movie. With current prices I have no intention of re-purchasing them. (I hope I didn't just say something incriminating - I believe it's within my rights to make a backup copy of a movie, please correct me if I'm wrong) I'm still waiting for OpenCL to fix the situation a bit. In the mean time (less than a year, hopefully) I'm just going to have to bear with a skipped frame or two. It feels a waste that I would now buy a new MB+CPU+RAM just to fix this when the old setup can still cope with good outlook for situation improvement in the near future. [/QUOTE]

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