HandBrake

And just for completeness here is the log for a Server 2008 R2 VM running on Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. The curious thing is that installing Hyper-V halves the frame rate, but a VM running on that Hyper-V server manages close to the original frame rate. In this particular case the frame rates were...

@mduell these are the logs with and without Hyper-V installed. The only difference I can see is that without Hyper-V we get: x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX FMA3 BMI2 AVX2 and with Hyper-V installed this line becomes: x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2...

It turns out the problem is having the Hyper-V role installed. Without the Hyper-V role Handbrake runs at the same speed on Server 2008 R2 as it does on Windows 7 Pro. For completeness I tested on server 2016 and Windows 10 Pro, and Handbrake runs at the same speed on all four platforms. However if ...

@s55 if you think it's worthwhile then I'm willing to find some hardware and do tests with Server 2008 and Win7 on the same hardware. But a) it's a lot of work installing Win7/2k8 on modern hardware - finding drivers and the hundreds of hotfixes that need installng b) does anyone care about a ten ye...

If I get the time I will set up two identical machines with Server 2008 and Win7, but since I've found that the difference doesn't exist with Server 2016 and Win10 I'll probably just write it off as a peculiarity of Server 2008.

@s55 I take your points, but it's the Win7 machine with only four cores, software rendering and the older version of Handbrake that is the faster. If it were slower then yes you'd have a point, but even though the Win7 machine is lower specced it's still faster than the Server2008 machine. That's wh...

An update to this: the difference does not exist on Windows Server 2016, that is on Server 2016 and Windows 10 Handbrake runs at the same speed on identical hardware. I guess speed on a ten year old server OS is not something of great concern, though I remain curious as to why the difference exists....

Description of problem or question: Running Handbrake on Server 2008 R2 SP1 the speed is significantly worse than running on Windows 7 Steps to reproduce the problem (If Applicable): Choose any video and resample on both Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7 SP1 on identical hardware. Get the processing...

Aha, thanks, I've tried with svn3508 and that seems fine.

JR

I'm trying to convert a .mkv file to .mp4 using handbrakecli and the conversion apparently works, but when I play the .mp4 in XBMC or using mplayer there's no sound. The activity log is attached below. When I play the .mp4 using mplayer it finds an audio track, but there's no sound on it, or more pr...