I have a Firewire 800 setup 4 drives in RAID 0.
What about H264, I saw some HD movies using this particular CODEC.
Thanks
Gian
I have a Firewire 800 setup 4 drives in RAID 0.
What about H264, I saw some HD movies using this particular CODEC.
Thanks
Gian
Gian
Ibeam SP
SP, Brasil
h264 like mpeg2 is rubbish for use in catalyst.
it uses interframe compression.
you cant access each frame without getting a dreadful performance hit - as you need to decode several frames to get one.
looping, changing in and out points. fast random access to individual frames - are all impossible - all things that are essential on a 'media server'.
some media servers use mpeg2 - but they have to convert the mpeg2 to a special format - with all i-frames...
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i have tested all this stuff thoroughly.
photojpeg 50% is the thing that works - and photojpeg is a really good codec.
Beacon DigiGobos® will make the folder for Catalyst in 50% PhotoJPEG withOriginally Posted by samsc
the coming HD series, I tested also and ended up with the same result as R!
Peppe Tannemyr
Beacon DigiGobos®
www.digigobos.com / www.gobogroup.com
i have also done tests between photojpeg 30% and photojpeg 100%.Originally Posted by peppe
and there is a very significant performace hit when you go over 60% - and almost no change in the image
photojpeg performance is very sensitive to compression 'quality'.
nothing to do with catalyst - its the performance of quicktime.
It's worth remembering that at the 100% quality setting Photo-Jpeg has 4:4:4 colour sampling in RGB 8 bit. At this level, it's very hard going on the processor to decode multiple streams of this... ;-) However, it is a fantastic and very efficient offline storage method. Unless you like storing your content in Animation Codec (which eats hard drive space), then it's a good bet.
Photo-Jpeg uses DCT intraframe compression technology, and therefore does not suffer from the problems that interframe compression based codecs (H264, Sorenson, Mpeg-2 etc) do.
Hugh
Altered State Ltd
photojpeg uses 4:4:4 sampling at every compression rate.
what dct algorithms do is throw away higher frequency information -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform
the sampling will be quite obscure and irrelevant to most peoples understanding.
i doubt whether a four drive firewire raid is any faster than a single scsi disc.Originally Posted by Gian
but i havent tested your raid.