Bluray to MKV GPU Acceleration?

Buchanan0204 · 27 Apr 2011 at 00:24

I currently use "MakeMKV" to backup my existing blurays, however the file sizes are between 20-30GB which is far too much if you have a lot of movies. I tried converting with handbrake, but it was something ridiculous like 5 hours. I have a [email protected]. It's still got enough oomph to do what I need, but this is a joke.

So I looked into it a little further and seen a guy on youtube using "DVDFab" with CUDA enabled and he was doing it in around 30mins. I currently have an ATI 6970 and I believe ATI cards use "DXVA." Same sort of principle as CUDA. I was sure dvdfab supported this, unfortunately it doesn't seem to kick in during the converting process. Is there something I'm missing?

Are there any good alternatives that will fully utilise my GPU for the video encoding?

Cheers.

Buchanan0204 · 27 Apr 2011 at 01:27

AbsenceJam said:
Please don't encode using anything but x264 at decent bitrates, no other encoder compares and the encodes produced using CUDA, APP (AMD), etc are the worst by far. You'll see huge differences if you look up any comparisons.

I keep everything untouched myself, might encode if it was easier/quicker to do a good job but certainly wouldn't skimp.

Isn't the likes of cuda only a way of offloading the work to the GPU? I didn't realised it effected quality in any way?

Buchanan0204 · 27 Apr 2011 at 18:54

I've decided just too give up. I did actually order two 2TB drives to put in my main pc which I also use a file server to stream to my HTPC running XBMC in the bedroom. I'm just going to stick too ripping to .MKV. Save any hassle with encoding etc.

If only it was quicker.

Buchanan0204 · 28 Apr 2011 at 19:53

Dirk said:
but i shouldn't think it'll allow people to rip Blu-Rays, as that is considered to against copyright laws.

What if it's your own blurays that you own?

Buchanan0204 · 29 Apr 2011 at 17:51

Energize said:
No it isn't, that would be a transfer rate of 1.5MB/s.

The reason it's taking so long is because he needs a faster processor. A 4.5GHz 2500k would be much faster.

I don't think James was referring to any form of compression or decoding, transocoding... whatever you want to call it. He was meaning a straight rip the hard disk without any compression or conversion. This only takes 30 minutes on average and is of course limited by your bluray drive.