I’ve pirated every video converter known to man (UniConverter, WinX, VideoProc, Aiseesoft, Tipard, etc) & even tried open source tools like ffmpeg and handbrake and I can’t get hardware acceleration to work unless I just don’t understand how it’s supposed to work. I have a Radeon ™ RX 470 graphics card and plenty of processing power.

An example is when I attempt to convert a video to HEVC and don’t use acceleration, I can get like 100 FPS and 2-3 mins rendering time but all my CPUs go to over 100%.

However, when I turn on acceleration or use the AMD HEVC Encoder (ffmpeg, handbrake), the FPS rate drops to like 10-15 FPS, the CPUs barely go over 10% and the GPU then jumps to over 100% which is fine but then it tells me it’ll take like 20 mins to render a 20 mins tv episode!?!?

This is driving me crazy. Can someone provide some insight on this? I’d be forever grateful. Thanks!

  • Hackerpunk1@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    Certain Converters might require additional configs to support fast conversion, such as UniConverter. I had to get some dll and paste them in the app directory for it to unlock hardware acceleration.

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      5 days ago

      Really!? I would LOVE to get that converter to work. I’ve got a pirated copy somewhere around here. Do you happen to remember what file it was and where to get it?

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      5 days ago

      Hmm, I wonder… It’s funny you mention this because Wondershare UniConverter I pirated and it installed and registered fine but I couldn’t get the AMD acceleration to show up under acceleration. It’s like it didn’t recognize it. I wonder if this file you mention has something to do with that because it DOES support AMD acceleration.