Today I performed a benchmarking test with MediaCoder iPhone Edition which has got improved support for Intel MSDK recently, by transcoding the same 720p H.264 MKV file to a MP4 file of iPhone 4 profile. In order to obtain transcoded videos with near visual quality, x264 was set to fast preset and Intel MSDK encoder was set to balanced mode. The difference in transcoding speed and CPU utilization is significant. With x264, the CPU utilization is near 100% and the overall transcoding speed is approximately 3.4x (versus playback speed). When using Intel MSDK encoder, with computation off-loaded to CPU built-in GPU, the CPU utilization is near 50% and the overall speed is about 7.9x, which is 2.3 times of that of x264.
Tag Archive: H.264
MediaCoder iPhone Edition Benchmarks (Intel MSDK vs x264) (Stanley posted on April 7th, 2012 )
TAGS:benchmark, H.264, Intel MSDK, x264
MediaCoder NT CUDA Edition released (Stanley posted on July 7th, 2010 )
MediaCoder NT CUDA Edition is a free H.264 transcoder dedicated for mobile devices accelerated by CUDA technology.
Features
- nVidia CUDA technology accelerated H.264 encoding
- Supporting parallelized transcoding tasks
- Decoding most popular video formats
- Encoding for iPhone, iPod, iPad, PSP, Mobile Phones and more soon
- User friendly interface
- Watch-folder feature for automated transcoding
- Totally free of charge
MediaCoder NT CUDA加速版是一款利用CUDA技术加速H.264视频编码，针对移动设备转码而开发的免费转码软件。
主要特点
- CUDA加速的H.264视频编
- CPU/GPU协同转码，多文件同时转换，最大发挥系统运算能力
- 解码所有主流影音格式解码
- 支持iPhone, iPod, iPad, PSP, 手机等设备，更多设备即将支持
- 用户界面友好易用，只需五步简单开始
- 提供了目录监视功能，实现自动转码
- 完全免费，无水印，无时限
MediaCoder 0.7.1 released – first free transcoder accelerated with NVIDIA CUDA technologyMediaCoder 0.7.1发布 – 全球首款支持CUDA加速的免费转码软件 (Stanley posted on June 8th, 2009 )
We are pleased to announce the release of the new version of MediaCoder 0.7.1. In this version, we start to make use of NVIDIA CUDA technology to accelerate H.264 encoding and video filtering.
A new encoder backend of “CUDA encoder” is added which can be chosen active on the Video tab.
TAGS:accelerate, cuda, H.264
MediaCoder now supports JM H.264 decoder and encoder (Stanley posted on July 14th, 2008 )
Since 0.6.1.4135, MediaCoder has integrated the support for JM H.264 decoder and encoder. JM H.264 decoder is able to decode the H.264 streams generated by many HD camcorders correctly which other open-source H.264 decoders cannot. JM H.264 encoder is one of the three major open-source H.264 encoder implementations. It has very rich parameters and support most features of H.264. Some frequently used parameters have been added into MediaCoder while the rest of thundreds of paramters can be adjusted by loading a JM configuration file (by specifying the configuration file path at “Configuration File” option). A JM configuration file is a plain text file.
How to convert AVCHD with MediaCoder (Stanley posted on July 3rd, 2008 )
MediaCoder 0.6.1.4130 has be added with AVCHD support. AVCHD is the format used by most HD camcorder, like Sony HD camcorder. With following settings, MediaCoder can decode AVCHD correctly and encode to any supported target formats.
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H.264 profiles and levels (Stanley posted on April 28th, 2008 )
H.264 Profiles
The standard includes the following seven sets of capabilities, which are referred to as profiles, targeting specific classes of applications:
- Baseline Profile (BP): Primarily for lower-cost applications with limited computing resources, this profile is used widely in videoconferencing and mobile applications.
- Main Profile (MP): Originally intended as the mainstream consumer profile for broadcast and storage applications, the importance of this profile faded when the High profile was developed for those applications.
- Extended Profile (XP): Intended as the streaming video profile, this profile has relatively high compression capability and some extra tricks for robustness to data losses and server stream switching.
- High Profile (HiP): The primary profile for broadcast and disc storage applications, particularly for high-definition television applications (this is the profile adopted into HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc, for example).
- High 10 Profile (Hi10P): Going beyond today’s mainstream consumer product capabilities, this profile builds on top of the High Profile—adding support for up to 10 bits per sample of decoded picture precision.
- High 4:2:2 Profile (Hi422P): Primarily targeting professional applications that use interlaced video, this profile builds on top of the High 10 Profile—adding support for the 4:2:2 chroma subsampling format while using up to 10 bits per sample of decoded picture precision.
- High 4:4:4 Predictive Profile (Hi444PP): This profile builds on top of the High 4:2:2 Profile—supporting up to 4:4:4 chroma sampling, up to 14 bits per sample, and additionally supporting efficient lossless region coding and the coding of each picture as three separate color planes.
x264 profile option added in MediaCoder build 4065 (Stanley posted on March 5th, 2008 )
The x264 profile option changes to the encoder settings to let the encoded bit stream comforted to specified H.264 profile (baseline, main, high).
