TMPGEnc not utilizing physical memory appropriately

[sriramd]

I upgraded my machine from 256 by adding 512MB. The memory is fine and applications like Sonic MyDVD seem to utlize the extra memory. But TMPGEnc seems to ignore a lot of physical memory and utlizes just a fraction of what is available.(During an MPEG2 DVD rendering session, the peak utilization was 289MB.
Is there a way to instruct TMPGEnc to grab the extra memory. I would assume the extra memory during rendering will speed up the rendering process(atleast to a certain extent)

[redwudz]

Not sure if this will help, but in TMPGEnc, go to options and increase the task priority. Although I suspect if TMPGEnc isn't using the extra memory, it doesn't need it.

[BobK]

Although I suspect if TMPGEnc isn't using the extra memory, it doesn't need it.

I'd guess that's probably true. It you don't have a lot of CPU speed then grabbing extra memory isn't going to do anything useful

[lordsmurf]

CPU is the main usage, not RAM

[sriramd]

Thanks for the info guys

I figure it is heavily cpu intensive and hence memory will not buy me much.

[disturbed1]

I upgraded my machine from 256 by adding 512MB. The memory is fine and applications like Sonic MyDVD seem to utlize the extra memory. But TMPGEnc seems to ignore a lot of physical memory and utlizes just a fraction of what is available.(During an MPEG2 DVD rendering session, the peak utilization was 289MB.
Is there a way to instruct TMPGEnc to grab the extra memory. I would assume the extra memory during rendering will speed up the rendering process(atleast to a certain extent)

With 1500mb of RAM, TMPG uses 450-500mb of RAM on my system. In the options under CPU, you can set TMPG to prefetch a certain amount of video to RAM. I have it set to 512.


On your system, TMPG is using 289. You really don't have much RAM left. XP (with all eyecandy off), uses 130-160 by itself. 2KPro uses under 100 with nothing else running.

[sriramd]

Will the multi-threaded setting with prefetching of video on a single-CPU box have any positive effect on the performance(will the rendering session be quicker)