Systems and methods for rendering & pre-encoded load estimation based encoder hinting

A computer-implemented method for encoding, comprising the steps of:

• recording a video sequence comprised of a plurality of frames;
• recording the encoder quality settings;
• and
• normalizing the encoder quality settings, wherein the normalized encoder quality settings are used to hint an encoder to code the video sequence.

A system for encoding data comprising:

• a server, wherein the server:
• records one or more playthroughs;
• sorts a plurality of frames from the one or more playthroughs into a plurality of cells;
• collects a list of the sorted frames;
• calculates an average frame size for the sorted plurality of cells;
• and
• encodes one or more frames from the list of sorted frames to calculate a per-cell normalized encoder quality setting for each of the plurality of cells;
• wherein the per-cell normalized encoder quality settings are used to hint an encoder to code a video sequence.

A computer-implemented method for encoding data comprising:

• recording one or more playthroughs;
• sorting a plurality of frames from the one or more playthroughs into a plurality of cells;
• collecting a list of the sorted frames;
• calculating an average frame size for the sorted plurality of cells;
• encoding one or more frames from the list of sorted frames to calculate a per-cell normalized encoder quality setting for each of the plurality of cells;
• and
• hinting an encoder to code a video sequence on the basis of the per-cell normalized per-cell normalized encoder quality settings.