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x264 encoding speed, what should my expectations be?

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Mar 15, 20268761 views
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I am running Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) on an HP Pavillion dv3 with core2duo 2.29 GHz, NVidia Geforce G105M (512MB) with CUDA and 4GB RAM. I have the latest versions of ffmpeg and x264. I recognise that these aren't fantastic specs for encoding, but I am used to encoding with DIVX on a (different) sin…

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ffmpeg -i infile.mpg -vcodec libx264 -preset slow -profile normal -crf 24 -threads 0 outfile.mp4

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Well, it's only a Core 2 Duo. The i7 would perform way better of course. Having CUDA doesn't help unfortunately, since x264 doesn't have GPU support. Also, encoding h.264 is computationally way more intensive than "just" into MPEG-4 Visual DivX. Tha…

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