flashmp3
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Hardware acceleration

Wed Mar 13, 2013 1:38 pm

Hi,

I have a video mixing software that works only with my Geforce gt 620m GPU. I want to record a video. Can I use intel quicksync and the intel hd 4000 gpu to record the software which is running with the nvidia GPU ? What would be the best way to record with best performance knowing the CUDA is already being used to decode the H264 videos which are playing through the LAV Video codec (CUVID)

Cheers

flashmp3
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Re: Hardware acceleration

Wed Mar 13, 2013 4:02 pm

I have to precise that i want to record the window which is displayed on my tv which is connected via HDMI.

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Re: Hardware acceleration

Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:53 am

No answer ?


I have also a weird problem which is that some time the soft just hang the system for a sort second during which you can't do anything then everything start working again after 2 or 3 seconds. I have already sent an email to the support but no answer

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Re: Hardware acceleration

Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:55 pm

@ the hanging problem: when I start to record, or end recording, often *my* system seem to hang for a fraction of a second, upto a full second. It's as if the opening of the record file is taking alot of time, or the buffer takes a tiny bit of time to fill, I don't know. It's not very long, and sometimes it's pretty unnoticeable... but sometime I panic, for a fraction of a second hehe.
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flashmp3
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Re: Hardware acceleration

Sun Mar 17, 2013 11:44 pm

I'm really disapointed of this app. I remember how Splah Pro was working well and thought this would be perfect as well.

I should have downloaded a cracked version.

I tried different time and the results are that using dual display with video recording on the TV through HDMI :

- My application crashed when Action! is set to use direcx/opengl app
- So i have to use a region capture mode
- Using Intel quicksync or cuda doesn't change anything in performance
- It's not possible to record at a higher video quality than "normal" mode
- Lots of screen hang so recording a mix video of clips for example is impossible
- No help and answer from staff neither on this forum nor through the support email address

I'll stay with my FREE msi afterburner+ x264 vfw codecs

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Re: Hardware acceleration

Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:49 am

flashmp3 wrote:Hi,

I have a video mixing software that works only with my Geforce gt 620m GPU. I want to record a video. Can I use intel quicksync and the intel hd 4000 gpu to record the software which is running with the nvidia GPU ? What would be the best way to record with best performance knowing the CUDA is already being used to decode the H264 videos which are playing through the LAV Video codec (CUVID)

Cheers
so... you want to record a program that plays video using CUDA/Nvidia ... and grab that with Action using QuickSync ?
that's very much possible IF:

- you have a Core i5/ i7 with Sandy or better: Ivy Bridge
- you have attached a monitor to your motherboard Video out

This would enable you to grab video and windows apps while they play,. regardless of what hardware they use to decode.

"NORMAL" video quality in Action is VBR h264 and is OK but not as good quality as say Handbrake x264 (which is the best in the world) ... Action videos tend to be 2x the size of x264 and more blocky ... it all depends on your resolution and FPS

flashmp3
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Re: Hardware acceleration

Mon Mar 18, 2013 1:04 pm

Montago wrote:
flashmp3 wrote:Hi,

I have a video mixing software that works only with my Geforce gt 620m GPU. I want to record a video. Can I use intel quicksync and the intel hd 4000 gpu to record the software which is running with the nvidia GPU ? What would be the best way to record with best performance knowing the CUDA is already being used to decode the H264 videos which are playing through the LAV Video codec (CUVID)

Cheers
so... you want to record a program that plays video using CUDA/Nvidia ... and grab that with Action using QuickSync ?
that's very much possible IF:

- you have a Core i5/ i7 with Sandy or better: Ivy Bridge
- you have attached a monitor to your motherboard Video out

This would enable you to grab video and windows apps while they play,. regardless of what hardware they use to decode.

"NORMAL" video quality in Action is VBR h264 and is OK but not as good quality as say Handbrake x264 (which is the best in the world) ... Action videos tend to be 2x the size of x264 and more blocky ... it all depends on your resolution and FPS
Thanks for your help. I managed to record via quicksync. But because of the quality that isn't good enough for what i want to do and the different moment the apps stucks my computer for a few seconds at different time it's not good to me. The bugs really need to be fixed.

I use asus ux32vd i7 with it

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Re: Hardware acceleration

Mon Mar 18, 2013 6:32 pm

New version will include a quality fixes for MP4 export and real time recording.
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