Goose RBoy,
This thread is almost 1 year old. Stability must have improved by now. Can we get a new build of ffmpeg. Many other projects say it is stable enough for them. Why not mcebuddy?
I just renewed my subscription. Happy to help out financially and testing, working on new features.
Hello Goose, RBoy
Weâve submitted a few patches to ffmpeg. Will restarting the testing cycle on the next release of ffmpeg
Sounds good. In the mean time while you are waiting on your patches to be approved, Why donât you apply them yourself and cross compile, making your own fork of ffmpeg.
I will add that Iâve also just re-upped my license.
Dropped in fresh nightly builds for MKV merge and extract,
Handbrake CLI, FFMPEG (the 2.8.2 20230930 build is said by the authors to be stable and includes new support for NVdecoder and NV AV1 encoding), and avidemux.
My preliminary testing doesnât seem to indicate that comskip with NVdec is appreciably faster than my ancient i5-4430 Haswell CPU.
However, after installing the new MCEBuddy 2.6.2 Oct 14 build, and updating the tools I listed above, I did notice MCEBuddy literally /blazed/ through a bunch of pending conversions.
So I have some more investigating to do to isolate what got a huge boost for some reason, but my initial takeaway is that either MCEBuddy turned it up to eleven, or one of the updated tools did. I use comskip and handbrake, and handbrake comes with its own internal statically linked FFMPEG, so my upgrading the MCBuddy version would not affect that.
Whatever you all are doing, keep on doing it.
Thanks, Goose and RBoy for this excellent and vital automation tool.
Just noticed this (git.ffmpeg.org Git - ffmpeg.git/blobdiff - Changelog)
6.1 should be out very soon, just waiting for them to update the home page.
I live on the edge and use these (roughly weekly) builds from Builds - CODEX FFMPEG @ gyan.dev
6.1 builds are now available here Builds - CODEX FFMPEG @ gyan.dev . Please keep us posted. Thanks.
also, handbrakecli was just bumped up to 1.7.0 but we are still waiting on a binary.
The nightly Handbrake builds are now the 1.7.0 builds. Notably we now have NVENC AV1 (nVidia hardware encoding to AV1).
However, this is only available on the new Ada (RTX40 series) cards.
It is unknown if nVidia will backport the encoder to the RTX10 series (Pascal), RTX20 series (Turing), or RTX30 series (Ampere) cards.
I donât use handbrake much, mostly ffmpeg but donât you mean svt or av1.
Goose, Rboy, how does 6.1 check out.
Yeah, I meant AV1. Fixed it. The encoder I can use is SVT and CPU bound. No GPU for me on a 2060. So staying on h.265 for now.
We have started work on the new versions. This is a big change because the new binaries no longer support older graphics cards so weâll have a lot more work going into this release maintain support for older GPUâs while also adding support new GPUâs and codecs. Anyone else with a newer GPUs (AMD, Nvidia, Intel) which support AV1 feel free to PM me if youâd like to be part of the testing process.
Oof! Did not know FFMPEG was dropping support for older cards. Or mencoder or handbrake if those are dropping support for older cards.
I wonder how many MCEBuddy users have those older cards, given that newer low-end cards are relatively in the same range as the cost of MCEBuddy.
And itâs not like those older card owners have to stop using the older versions of MCEBuddy that support those cards, or that theyâve been pulled from the archives.
It doesnât seem to me to be a compelling argument that future development of MCEBuddy must be crippled or delayed to support GPUs (or CPUs) that no are longer being made or supported themselves by the manufacturers based on conjecture that theyâre still in use by people that can afford to pay for the new version license, but not a newer low-end video card that is probably also orders of magnitude more performant than the obsolete card for the same cost.
Anyone still needing support for floppy drives, for example?
Just curious how big the population of MCEBuddy users that also have those cards or CPUs being dropped and canât just switch to software codecs, or are there specific cards or CPUs in use that canât be upgraded, canât use software codecs, and also just have to upgrade their version of MCEBuddy?
Mike808, You are running an older card, Why not upgrade this holiday season. newegg has some good deals on the arc a380 also the rtx4060 is not too bad ether
Cross linking:
@Goose I thought AMD doesnât have AV1 encode yet, just decode. Did they add that in their drivers?
RBoy Goose, thanks for all the work on this, just sent a donation your way.
Drivers/APIâs support it but the hardware needs to be out there (RDNA3 architecture like the Navi 3x and Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs) for mcebuddy to use it
See this: GPU/Hardware Encoding/Acceleration FAQs