Encoding Mode: CPU??

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Dirkmaster
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Encoding Mode: CPU??

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Why, when I have a Nvidia 970, and my settings are set to use Hardware Encoding is ON, does the processing bar still say "Encoding mode: CPU (Software), and my CPU become saturated when converting videos into a DVD?
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cedric
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Re: Encoding Mode: CPU??

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Because hardware encoders are only used for H264 encoding, when DVD Video standard uses Mpeg-2 video codec.

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Dirkmaster
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Oh, man, is this a slap in the face. :( So you're telling me that the only time that the program will use my CUDA cores is if/when I have it convert files to MP4? Or am I misunderstanding what you are saying?
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H264 codec can be used for almost all containers... except DVD Video.
It can be used in mkv, avi, mp4, 3gp, mts, m2ts, AVCHD and Blu-ray.

We can't use hardware Mpeg-2 encoders from graphic cards because we need a lot of specific settings (not accessible in GPU) to create full DVD Video compliant files.

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Re: Encoding Mode: CPU??

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the sole purpose of ConvertXtoDVD is to create DVD´s (not to convert in mkv, avi, mp4, 3gp, mts, m2ts, AVCHD and Blu-ray.)
Ergo it´s harwareoptimization via Nvidia Cuda is useless
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