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Dell XPS to get new NVIDIA 8800 1GB

For sure the fastest laptop, that is a nice looking machine! You tested an 8700 that did not work with Redcine? Can you please post config you were using?

Kevin
 
Kevin, yes REDCINE didn't like 8700.

here is my XPS 1730 config:

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7700 (2.4GHz/800Mhz FSB, 4MB Cache)
Genuine Windows XP 32
2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz
RAID 0 or RAID 1: 400GB (2x200GB) 7200RPM Free Fall Sensor
CD / DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW Drive)
NVIDIA®SLI™Dual GeForce®8700MGT with 512MB GDDR3 Memory
Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965a/g/n Mini Card
Built-in Bluetooth capability (2.0 EDR)
85 WHr Lithium Ion Battery (9-cell)

and here are my log posts:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=145512&postcount=45
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=145897&postcount=46
 
Andrew said:
NVIDIA®SLI™Dual GeForce®8700MGT with 512MB GDDR3 Memory

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=145512&postcount=45
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=145897&postcount=46
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Ok - couple of things...

First of all, SLI bad. You want to play games and move lots of small textures around very fast... SLI good. You want to use REDCINE and move lots of very big textures around very fast - SLI bad.

As an experiment - turn off SLI and try again.

Also - you only posted one logfile - which is with an ATI X600.

But - the other one is sprouting errors on QT rendering. Try outputting DPX. Same error?

Lucas
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ASSIMILATE, Inc.
LA, CA, USA
 
Thanks! Lucas.
SLI is off. I don’t use it for games so I don’t need it. Just extra thing, could be disregarded. Memory and speed is what I am after. Also it is the only laptop with build in RAID disks, and wide gamut LCD. Excellent for our job.


DPX is working fine, just QT H.264
Also QT H.263 gives very bad rendering, I ask for 2K and I am getting 2K that looks like 320X260.
 
Andrew said:
Thanks! Lucas.
SLI is off. I don’t use it for games so I don’t need it. Just extra thing, could be disregarded. Memory and speed is what I am after. Also it is the only laptop with build in RAID disks, and wide gamut LCD. Excellent for our job.


DPX is working fine, just QT H.264
Also QT H.263 gives very bad rendering, I ask for 2K and I am getting 2K that looks like 320X260.
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Okey doke - good info.

Do you have QT Pro installed? H.264 encoding requires Pro.

Lucas
 
Yes, I have QT Pro 7.3.1

And why I see this in the log file:
09:06:02.57 INFO : QuickTime 7.49.128 initialized
API library used by REDCINE?
 
Andrew said:
Yes, I have QT Pro 7.3.1

And why I see this in the log file:
09:06:02.57 INFO : QuickTime 7.49.128 initialized
API library used by REDCINE?
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Forget about REDCINE for a minute. Can you encode anything else on your system into an H.264 Quicktime? Take an MJPEG Quicktime or a sequence of TIFFs... anything. Can you successfully encode an H.264 Quicktime using QT Pro?

Lucas
 
Good thinking, will try tomorrow at work.
Don't sleep with XPS but I will consider sleeping with RED as Jim suggested:-)

Anything else should I try tomorrow?
 
Are you okay Lucas? ;)

" SLI bad ... SLI good ... SLI bad "

brilliant!
 
So I had full big glass of Carrot Juice and then I exported sequence of 4K tiff frames from Jim’s race track shot using REDCINE build 82 on my XPS 1730 with NVIDIA 8700 2X256MB

Next I started QT Pro7.3.1 and opened file sequence and exported it to QT H.264 2K, zooooooomm.. this was fast! No errors and I checked playing it back at original 24fps.

So far so good. Next I went back to REDCINE and the only thing I changed was export from tiff to QT H.264 and the output format to custom 2048X1024.

I got the following error,
Player - failed to write frame 0.

And here is the log:

PB: 'ImgProcess', Create a 4096x2048 Pixel Buffer..
20:43:24.81 ERROR: GFX PB(1): Unable to create pixel buffer : ''
20:43:24.81 ERROR: CG: Failed to setup a 4096x2048 pixel buffer..
20:43:25.52 ERROR: QT Codec: CRASHED during compressing a frame..
: Frame: 2048x1024 - 8 bit
20:43:25.52 ERROR: QT Codec: Failed to compress frame (error -1)..
: Frame: 2048x1024 - 8 bit
: PB: 'ImgTexture', Create a 1024x512 Pixel Buffer..
: PB: Ready..
20:43:25.96 ERROR: GL Display Render Pass (88): 'Out of memory'
20:43:26.08 WARN : Pre TX define 1: OpenGL Error - Out of memory
20:43:32.20 WARN : AS Pixel buffer activate: OpenGL Error - Out of memory
20:43:36.52 INFO : Terminate Player..

Lucas, what do you think, another glass of Carrot Juice?
 
Andrew said:
So I had full big glass of Carrot Juice and then I exported sequence of 4K tiff frames from Jim’s race track shot using REDCINE build 82 on my XPS 1730 with NVIDIA 8700 2X256MB

Next I started QT Pro7.3.1 and opened file sequence and exported it to QT H.264 2K, zooooooomm.. this was fast! No errors and I checked playing it back at original 24fps.

So far so good. Next I went back to REDCINE and the only thing I changed was export from tiff to QT H.264 and the output format to custom 2048X1024.

I got the following error,
Player - failed to write frame 0.

And here is the log:

PB: 'ImgProcess', Create a 4096x2048 Pixel Buffer..
20:43:24.81 ERROR: GFX PB(1): Unable to create pixel buffer : ''
20:43:24.81 ERROR: CG: Failed to setup a 4096x2048 pixel buffer..
20:43:25.52 ERROR: QT Codec: CRASHED during compressing a frame..
: Frame: 2048x1024 - 8 bit
20:43:25.52 ERROR: QT Codec: Failed to compress frame (error -1)..
: Frame: 2048x1024 - 8 bit
: PB: 'ImgTexture', Create a 1024x512 Pixel Buffer..
: PB: Ready..
20:43:25.96 ERROR: GL Display Render Pass (88): 'Out of memory'
20:43:26.08 WARN : Pre TX define 1: OpenGL Error - Out of memory
20:43:32.20 WARN : AS Pixel buffer activate: OpenGL Error - Out of memory
20:43:36.52 INFO : Terminate Player..

Lucas, what do you think, another glass of Carrot Juice?
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Ooooo... looks like it might have to be Pomegranate...

I believe there is a new build of REDCINE that will be posted soon that might fix this. I suspect a memory thingamabob that has been causing some fits that has been fixed recently.

Lucas
 
I have to go to the store and get case of a Pomegranate....my favourite.
I ordered NVIDIA 8800 upgrade for my XPS, will be available in March.
I like this XPS more and more, almost like the desktop, many things upgradeable, GPU, HD, LAN, 3G wireless, all upgradeable.

Do you know how to make REDCINE work on two screens?
Would be nice to drag the preview frame out from the first screen to the second or just to have option to start preview screen on the second monitor. I guess for this I have to drink something stronger?:-) (maybe Smirnoff)
 
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