Thanks for the explanation, it should help things greatly.
Well, I performed the test conversion this evening, and was floored by the results. I decided to go ahead and update the AMD Catalyst drivers to the 13.4 version that went live last week, and the difference is, in a word, dramatic. The standalone Handbrake converted a 15m file in ~13m. The MCEBuddy 2.3.13 MP4 conversion took 5 minutes TOTAL. It looks like the issue was the MCEBuddy version not being hardware accelerated, as the average framerate before the update was ~35fps, while after the update it was ~88fps.
Moral of the story: always at least try the newest drivers kids. You can always rollback if necessary.
Thanks again for the phenomenal work you've done already, and I really look forward to what goodies you have in store for us.
Well, I performed the test conversion this evening, and was floored by the results. I decided to go ahead and update the AMD Catalyst drivers to the 13.4 version that went live last week, and the difference is, in a word, dramatic. The standalone Handbrake converted a 15m file in ~13m. The MCEBuddy 2.3.13 MP4 conversion took 5 minutes TOTAL. It looks like the issue was the MCEBuddy version not being hardware accelerated, as the average framerate before the update was ~35fps, while after the update it was ~88fps.
Moral of the story: always at least try the newest drivers kids. You can always rollback if necessary.
Thanks again for the phenomenal work you've done already, and I really look forward to what goodies you have in store for us.