expiredSuryasis posted Jun 17, 2021 05:07 AM
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expiredSuryasis posted Jun 17, 2021 05:07 AM
HP ENVY x360 Laptop: 15.6" 1080p 400-nits, Ryzen 7 5700U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD
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I picked one up a few weeks ago from Costco (it came with 250 nits screens and 12 GB memory), and while I love everything about the laptop, I wished for a brighter screen and more memory. Your post is an answer to my prayer. And getting a pen is an added bonus.
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Can't do any of the Asus models unfortunately. No webcam is a dealbreaker, don't want to have to always make sure i take an external with me in my bag.
Can't do any of the Asus models unfortunately. No webcam is a dealbreaker, don't want to have to always make sure i take an external with me in my bag.
What is the budget for the Laptop by the way?
And for encoding, use tools like Staxrip, instead of popular options like Handbrake or AVIDEMUX. While they are easy to use and provide one-click solutions, they normally don't offer many of the settings in the GUI and you need to apply them in command line.
In Staxrip, the configuration available for NVENC encoder, both H264 and H265, are extremely robust. Also, you can manually update each of the encoders individually, when a new version is available, rather than waiting for a newer Staxrip build with those encoders' new version.
For my side work, I need to encode a tons of Video in HEVC format, both in 1080P and 4K. Since I was using a Intel Haswell-E based 6 Core Core i7-5830K HEDT platform with X99 Motherboard, rather than investing in a new platform, I picked up a Xeon E5-2658 v4 14 Core CPU at cheap price from a Server retailer at just $180 and was using that for encoding. My Card was GTX 1070 Ti and it doesn't support a lot of advanced features like B-Frame and use B-Frame as reference.
Once I upgraded my laptop last year to a Core i9-9880H and RTX 2080 based system, I started reading about the NVENC configuration available in Turning and which tool has the most options available and then switched to GPU encoding using Staxrip.
It now offers the below feature in the GUI only
- Full 2 Pass Encoding using Quality or Average Bitrate.
- HDR processing
- B-Frame support
- B-Frame as Reference frame
- Ref Frame up to 20
- Adaptive Quantization, both spatial and temporal
- B-Adapt, i-Adapt
- Non-Ref P-Frame insertion
- Multi Ref L0 and L1
- Q-Pel Precision
With all these features properly configured and saved in custom presets for different types of video, now I am outputting same quality video, at around 2% to 5% higher file size than pure software encoding. RTX 2080, with full two pass encoding and almost all the configuration and Quality preset, gives around 180 to 230 frames per second speed, far higher than 30 to 50 fps in my 14 core CPU. A 2-hour H264 1080P video with 20 Mbps, taken in DSLR, approximately takes around 10 minutes foe encoding, with around 5000 to 7000 kbps for a pretty sharp looking output.Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
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