Bluray to x264 encoding - anyone with i7 and quad real world numbers?

I've been steadily growing my bluray movie collection, and I think it has reached 'critical mass' such that for various reasons, I'd like a backup copy on a hard drive somewhere. I only have one bluray drive, so having a x264 rip would be convenient for watching them elsewhere, plus I could always re-encode and throw something on my iPhone to watch on the road.

My main box currently has a Q9450 processor which is fine for regular encoding of SDDVDs, but am wondering how much real world performance gains I would get from moving to a i7 to encode blurays to x264. I have a decent number of blurays (fast approaching 100 at last count, yay for deepdiscount 25% off sale) so if I could get much faster times on a i7 box it would give me even more incentive to upgrade

Cliffs:
(1) If you have a i7 and do bluray -> x264, how long does a movie take you, on average?
(2) If you have a 775 quad and do bluray -> x264, how long does a movie take you, on average?

PS I know answers to both question 1 and 2 can vary depending on clock speed, OC and what not, but I'm just trying to get a general feel of the jump in performance.

PPS I know bluray -> x264 involves AnyDVD, some encoder or other, and performance may also vary according to that.

Have you tried Windows 7 for this task?

In before Snowknight26 pounces on this:

x264 is a piece of open source software, not a format, soooo...

More info at the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X264

What you'd be hoping to accomplish is using x264 and other tools to create MKV files (that's the preferred format for hi def "rips" nowadays) of those discs you have. Well, I guess I better not say MKV is a "format" either... it's a container, but for today's hi def rips the end result is typically AC3 audio streams with h264/AVC content for the video stream, all contained inside the MKV file.

Bleh...

Joe Average said:

In before Snowknight26 pounces on this:

x264 is a piece of open source software, not a format, soooo...

More info at the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X264

What you'd be hoping to accomplish is using x264 and other tools to create MKV files (that's the preferred format for hi def "rips" nowadays) of those discs you have. Well, I guess I better not say MKV is a "format" either... it's a container, but for today's hi def rips the end result is typically AC3 audio streams with h264/AVC content for the video stream, all contained inside the MKV file.

Bleh...

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This

Also just get an i7
You will be much happier, and it will be TONS faster.
I moved from a 2x Xeon5320 setup, and my i7 at stock is faster at transcoding.

How long it actually takes?
What kind of quality are we talking? Bluray to almost no qualilty loss will take 8-9 hours maybe?
I dunno because transcoding to almost the same quality is just stupid. You should just remux to the container you want stripping out all the extras.
If you are going to say an ipod it might take 40 minutes.

again all this depends on various things, such as clock, oc, movie lenght, etc.

A simple answer to your question though would be:
Considering all else equal a i7 920 compared to a q9450 would be a major step forward when dealing with parallel processing

Joe Average said:

In before Snowknight26 pounces on this:

x264 is a piece of open source software, not a format, soooo...

More info at the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X264

What you'd be hoping to accomplish is using x264 and other tools to create MKV files (that's the preferred format for hi def "rips" nowadays) of those discs you have. Well, I guess I better not say MKV is a "format" either... it's a container, but for today's hi def rips the end result is typically AC3 audio streams with h264/AVC content for the video stream, all contained inside the MKV file.

Bleh...

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In a day or two (possibly even tomorrow), he'll be able to give you some comparisons between an i7 920 and a Q6600. Well, if everything goes to plan at least...

I have been searching all over the net for some numbers between a Q9550 and an i7 920 blu ray encoding times. Anyone willing to share some info?

I went from a qx9650 to an i7 920 and shaved off ~4hours per movie

I have a q6600 at 3.2ghz and I can transcode a bluray rip at minimal quality loss in ~7-10 hours. I'm not sure how the 6600 compares to your quad, but I would expect somewhere in the same ballpark. Something you might want to look into would be just getting a second quad, or another two. You can put a computer together for that pretty cheap, possibly getting a pair of lga775 quads for the cost of an i7 based computer. I'm pretty sure the pair of quads would be faster. The only issue then is the inconvenience of running conversions on 2-3 computers.