I just found this beautiful version of the original trilogy and I'm in love. Thanks so much for making this masterpiece available to us. I'd really like to be able to experience it on more than just my laptop, but I downloaded a .mkv. I tried converting it to a format that I can share and stream more easily, but I can't solve some A/V sync issues. Any recommendations?
Oldschooljedi said:
I made encodings with g-force's script to stabilize the GOUT a few years ago.
One movie took about one week to encode. The encoding time was estimated for 2 weeks, but it took one week finally.
For ANH I started the encoder, travelled for vacation to spain and when I was back at home I had the first movie encoded!
you were lucky you didn't have a blackout at home! lol
He’s no good to me dead
Just a progress report. Seems to be going fairly well.
So, I just had an error and am starting the encoding from scratch. Fucking great :-/ I'm crying a little bit right now :-(
Oh shit :-( I'm sorry to read that.
Harmy said:
So, I just had an error and am starting the encoding from scratch. Fucking great :-/ I'm crying a little bit right now :-(
Shit happens bro.! Come on you can do it! IN HARMY WE TRUST!! :)
He’s no good to me dead
Yeah, now the encode seems to be going slower from the beginning for some reason. Last time I had an average of 17.8fps for the 1st pass, starting on 19fps and now it's going at 13fps from the beginning and I restarted the computer before each encoding, so they should both have the exact same starting point. And it's not using the CPU to full capacity - only around 70% - WTF is up with that?
What kind of error did you get?
I think the reason for the low CPU usage in the first pass is that we use single-thread Avisynth. A multi-thread version exists, but I'm not sure by how much the encode will speed up. Plus we'd have to modify the script.
By the way, as long as you kept the files .stats and mbtree.stats from your last encode, you wouldn't have to redo the first pass again, just the second.
Well, I idiotically didn't keep those. And the error was nothing to do with the script, don't worry - it was a mechanical problem.
And I wouldn't mind it not using the CPU fully if it went just as fast as the first time but it doesn't. And in the first pass it doesn't matter as much either, because it will only add an hour or so but if it's any indication for how fast the 2nd pass will be, that's the real problem.
Get this man some horsepower, STAT.
So now it's dropped to 7fps. I'm really pissed off.
That's strangely slow. How much did the first pass progress?
It's on 41% now and the speed got up to 9fps, so it says 3hrs left, but still it's very slow. And it uses the CPU fully now.
Ok. So let it finish it and then you'll see how fast the second pass is. If it's considerably slower than previously you can still abord it. Then you have the statistics file and can run the second pass seperately.
Have you checked the RAM usage by any chance?
Yes, I have, it's surprisingly low, only around 400MB, but that was the same the first time around.
Anyway, pass 1 finished with average of 12fps (it did speed up a bit towards the end) and now pass 2 is up to 5.1% and going pretty well (currently 1.7fps) but it's slowing down steadily (it started out at over 2fps).
It looks good so far, I hope the speed doesn't decrease too much later on. At such low percentages it's normal however since the first few thousand frames are the credits and the oping crawl which are easier to encode and require a smaller bitrate. That's why this part of the movie is faster to encode.
Pass 2 13% speed 1.34fps. ETA 31 hrs. So far so good, although it makes me mad to think that it could have been done by now :-/
Harmy, PM sent.
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Harmy, I put something interesting in your PM's too.
Screw that red shirt... keep rendering!
Even in the Star Wars Universe the Red Shirts get no respect...
lol, screw that crap
Don't worry, guys. This is the kind of thing I might have lft in even if I knew about it, so I sure as hell won't start rendering from scratch because of it.
