Badaboom and the EVO

[kandekilla]

Badaboom and the EVO (video conversion)

Playing around with Badaboom (video converter that uses CUDA badaboomit DOT com), did a conversion of a BluRay using iphone preset then changing to 960x540 and 1000 kbit and the files play perfectly and look amazing on the 4.3in screen.

Just thought I would share since its a pretty good program and not a lot of settings to mess with or much to tweak. same resolution but 2500 kbit setting, the video wouldn't play. my Pre conversions, 720x480 at 500 kbit play but look like crap.

 

[Cory Streater]

That's good to know. It will save me from having to figure out what the perfect settings should be.

 

[kandekilla]

Should also add to keep the file size below 2gb. If you file goes over, it may not play. Just adjust the bitrate or resolution to bring it down to the right size.

 

[kandekilla]

failbear.com/files/EVO.mp4 clip of a file using Badaboom 2500kbit 960x540 settings. So it handles the highest quality setting just fine. So more of a stream quality tweaking to get the file size right. Some artifacts with really fast motion, but fully watchable and clean overall. Can hit me up on twitter @dijitek if anyone has a question. Badaboom rendering is faster then doing the same sample with handbrake. Unless you have some really nice quad core. Leveraging CUDA will save a lot of time and hassle.

 

[Yourdogsdead]

I guess ATI doesn't have any CUDA alternatives. Guess it's just the i7 that will be doing the heavy lifting.

 

[kandekilla]

Yeah, there is ATI Stream. cyberlink.com/products/mediashow-espresso/overview_en_US.html I know this program uses Stream on ATI GPUs. I dont have an ATI card to test it out though. Might be time to snag a 5700/5800 series. I think ArcSoft has software that uses it as well, but not sure if its just for playback or rendering.

 

[cl191]

I guess ATI doesn't have any CUDA alternatives. Guess it's just the i7 that will be doing the heavy lifting.

I tried using it to rip a dvd on an i7 920 and gt285 before, it didn't seem to be any faster than using other non gpu dvd ripper, although for my friend on a core2 and gt280 he saw something like 4-5 times performance increases for using this instead.

 

[dwhitman]

I'm having bad luck transcoding.

Started with Handbrake, 10 files all done with the same settings (mp4, width 800, anamorphic none, preserve aspect ratio, h.264, constant quality 61%,audio AAC, mixdown stereo). All played fine on my computer, but on the Evo only 3 were usable; the other 7 had audio but no video.

Tried some advanced settings I found in a discussion (0 b-frames, CABAC off, detelecene default, decomb default). No improvement on any of the 7 files.

Tried badaboom with settings recommended upthread on one of the files that didn't give video. This time video was good...but no sound.

Trying again on another file, forcing stereo mixdown. Will see if that helps.

 

[kandekilla]

I've encoded at least 20 movies to rotate through the SDCard via badaboom. Some with full 1280X720 some with the 960x540. Resolution change is mainly to keep the file size at or under 2gb. Over that and the Evo freaks out. Some from local files, others from DVD/BluRay. The clip in the link above is straight from a BluRay rip using Badaboom. I can take some screenshots if needed of all the screens in Badaboom with how i use it.

Tempted to use the Custom Media Center option just to see how high of a bitrate I can get. Using 2.5mbit most of the time, sometimes less just for file size purposes.

 

[EVO Navian]

I tried the OP's settings, but the video came out cropped up full view and weirdly small in normal view. I followed this blog's settings with a different converter though. DVD ripped then converted. I wish I could rip my blu-rays though Oh well, the quality is satisfactory to me nonetheless.

 

[EVO Navian]

Finally found something better than my above post and shows the whole video when I reripped my dvds (I deleted all my damn vob files by accident). DVDFab 7 (also has blu ray ripper). Converted mine using Iphone settings and changed my settings to 640x352, 1500kbps. Doesn't take long at all like the others I've tried. I use format factory for other files (this one takes awhile sometimes depending on size), same settings looks and sounds great on the screen. No more tiny black box.

P.S. It has a free version with no watermarks. Ace! Oh and drm bypass. I had a hard time ripping the new Alice in Wonderland, stupid Disney's free digital copy was corrupted and they would not help me out

 

[05 TypeS DC5]

Finally found something better than my above post and shows the whole video when I reripped my dvds (I deleted all my damn vob files by accident). DVDFab 7 (also has blu ray ripper). Converted mine using Iphone settings and changed my settings to 640x352, 1500kbps. Doesn't take long at all like the others I've tried. I use format factory for other files (this one takes awhile sometimes depending on size), same settings looks and sounds great on the screen. No more tiny black box.

P.S. It has a free version with no watermarks. Ace! Oh and drm bypass. I had a hard time ripping the new Alice in Wonderland, stupid Disney's free digital copy was corrupted and they would not help me out

what software did you use to rip your dvd's? Also, did you have to buy the full version of dvdfab 7? on their page it says it's fully functional for first 30days..

Thanks