plain kite
Hey, I've just got a new A380 for encoding stuff.
So I threw (screwed lol) it into my old pc with older hardware (i7-7700k, 16gb@1600mhz ram, 500gb samsung ssd) and tried to encode a h265 video into av1 using handbrake. but to my surprise, my gpu only had a usage of ~60% but my cpu a 100% one.
Is my cpu the bottleneck?
nimble marsh
Are you using the QSV AV1 profile to encode?
plain kite
Are you using the QSV AV1 profile to encode?
Hey, yeah
I've selected the QSV AV1 profile
nimble marsh
try a higher res file?
plain kite
try a higher res file?
gimme a sec recordxing one rn :)
4k60 H264
-> 1080p60 w/ QSV AV1
Still high cpu, 50-60% cpu
nimble marsh
what version of handbrake?
plain kite
1.7.2 (2023122400)
nimble marsh
I'll do some testing after this meeting
plain kite
Okay okay thx :)
nimble marsh
is the file you used to test available publicly?
plain kite
nope sadly not, but i'm just using random recordings
one from my phone (s21+) so i don't really think it matters
but i can record a new one if you want
plain kite
so i'm not the only one having this problem 
?
nimble marsh
not sure what the deal with Handbrake is tbh
plain kite
wym
hybrid egret
in task manager, you can change what load is displayed. currently you only show "video decode" and "video processing"
change one of the four graphs to "video encode"
And observe
plain kite
tbh, i don't have a video encode graph anywhere in task manager
hybrid egret
Which opens do you have?
plain kite
hybrid egret
curious
could be one of the unnamed ones, but I am sure there was one for video encoding as well
arc control just has this "media activity" field which is less useful.
will take me 3 days to check on my system
plain kite
maybe another reason could be one of those two things?:
hybrid egret
check what driver you are on
it might make a difference. And while at it, run DDU to remove the unneeded bloat first
plain kite
hybrid egret
yeah, that's from like July 2022 before launch I think
we are at 5186 right now
might also be a firmware update included.
I don't think anything significantly has changed with video encoding tho. Apart from the Vulkan video support, which I don't think is used by handbrake or other ffmpeg guis.
plain kite
where can i get newer ones from? i've only found ubuntu drivers
hybrid egret
be careful with that installer, don't check the spyware or the bloatware they want to give you
if you want arc control, you can extract the installer and install that by hand.
There might also be a flag to do that directly. Haven't tried it yet.
plain kite
alright, alright
let me look into that tomorrow
it's 2am over here
i'll update you then :) but thx for now
plain kite
// have to do that on the WE sorry
plain kite
Hey quick update. The driver fixxed everything
There are still some performance problems when streaming stuff to discord, but idk if they're from my old cpu/ram or maybe my connection? it's weird