@Jose-Patino

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@AAProds @johnebaker @CubeAce @Former user @fergie

Hi All

Please note that the i7 5960X processor does not have an on board graphics chip.

Also MEP2021 only has the Infusion Engine 2 which as far as I can remember does not use the NVENC chip for HWA decoding / encoding.....?

@AAProds

. . . . ATI Radeon HD 4770 (512mb) which is ignored by MEP . . . .

Why do you say that? It shows up in your screenshot of MEP program settings. The question is more "why doesn't it show up in the performance graphs in task manager"

Thanks for pointing out to other posters that saying just " .MP4" can lead to confusion as to which Codec is being used - I have been meaning to mention this myself.

Peter

@Scenestealer

. . . . ATI Radeon HD 4770 (512mb) which is ignored by MEP . . . .

Why do you say that? It shows up in your screenshot of MEP program settings. The question is more "why doesn't it show up in the performance graphs in task manager"

Peter, I say that because for all encodes MEP says "no hardware encoding".

@AAProds @Scenestealer @emmrecs @fergie

. . . ATI Radeon HD 4770 (512mb) which is ignored by MEP . . . .

Why do you say that? It shows up in your screenshot of MEP program settings. The question is more "why doesn't it show up in the performance graphs in task manager"

Peter, I say that because for all encodes MEP says "no hardware encoding".

That doesn't mean any GPU is ignored completely as it can still be pressed into use for 3D graphics calculations or Copy and the vram could still be pressed into service. It is just not used for encode or decode duties. Inboard GPUs do not have dedicated vram though but used reserved system memory which is much slower than dedicated vram. I was aware the processor did not have a GPU but early motherboards could still often have a graphics port on them. Whether it could be pressed into service or not I'm not sure when there was no GPU present on the processor. I have always has an nvidia GPU or some kind in the past once I started using Intel CPUs.

Ray.

@AAProds @CubeAce

Hi Al

Ok, but @fergie question was about no display during playback so, as Ray concurs, the Radeon card should still be showing activity whilst previewing as it uses Direct X to accelerate effects, etc.

I can not explain why your AMD GPU is not showing in TM. Have you tried using GPU-Z 's sensor tab to observe activity during playback?

Ray

"...early motherboards could still often have a graphics port on them."

That would be going back a very very long way when there was some sort of graphics chip on the Mobo which I am almost certain could not be utilised for HWA in MEP.

I have tested ferg's H.265 file in MEP 2016 where it would not play and displayed as some weird coloured matrix, but MEP 2022 ( Infusion engine3) and VPX12 (Infusion engine 2) played it smoothly with less than 10% CPU load and 20% GPU load on the INtel and 20% Nvidia when all Video mode settings in MEP were set to Nvidia.

Interestingly my Nvidia Dedicated Ram showed 2.9GB of 6GB used but this rose to 5.9 GB with about 80% load on the Intel if the processing selection was set to Intel HD530, as I think you experienced.

John EB

I wondered about the additional Timecode data but this is only a strip to sync other camera together on set and in post so it should not upset things. I have tested other Professional Prores files with TC and a raft of camera settings in the Media Info Metadata and they seem happy.

Peter

@Scenestealer

Oh Yes! AMD Athlon running Win 98. awful graphics capability often resulting in just a green screen just trying to play a video clip off of the internet.

I have no idea how long motherboards retained a graphics port but probably until Motherboards used HDMI. Motherboards still have mouse ports so...😉.

I tnterestingly my Nvidia Dedicated Ram showed 2.9GB of 6GB used but this rose to 5.9 GB with about 80% load on the Intel if the processing selection was set to Intel HD530, as I think you experienced.

Correct but less vram usage as I only have 4GB of vram.

Ray.

@Scenestealer

Hi Peter

. . . . I wondered about the additional Timecode data but this is only a strip to sync . . . .

After a little more digging, mainly looking at the MAC side, Quicktime Pro can extract the telemetry from MP4 files which have the telemetry data encoded.

The MP4 container file must have the data encoded in 'streams' so it would be a a reasonable assumption that the 'Timecode' channel also contains the telemetry data, additionally if the timecode stream was standard SMPTE timecode VPX should be able to extract it.

John EB