Optimal use of dual proc for conversion

[Jaimie]

i've got a dual proc machine running Windows 2000, but none of the conversion utilities i've tried (incl. TMPGEnc.) seems to make full use of the 2 procs.
where's the hickup?

[tuan711]

With TMPGEnc, you have to go the program settings and enable the multi-CPU option.

Once you have enabled TMPGEnc to use both CPU, you can monitor the CPU usage on your task bar. By default when you run TMPGEnc with both CPU, it is running at normal 'priority' mode thus the program uses about 50% of each CPU (you can see this on the system task bar).

In Win2K, you can change the ''priority'' to high as TMPGEnc is running and you will see the CPU uagage spike up to 100% for both CPU.

I have been using dual CPU for a while now and it is the best PC configuration to shorten encoding time. Coupled the Dual CPU system with CCE, I was able to encode a 5 minutes AVI clip to 720x480 MPEG2 DVD compliant program stream in about 4 minutes. That is faster than real-time.

I have a dual P3 700MHz with 1G of RAM. I don't know if the large amount of RAM makes a big different, but I know it won't hurt.

[LighthouseJ]

I have 2xP3 500 with 384MB of ram, and I monitor the memory usage with the task manager, it never even begins to make a difference. Conversion only relies primarily on processor and disk speed. Disk speed being hard drive controller and the hard drive itself's rpm speed.

[ktnwin]

Another way is to run two different sessions of TMPGEnc to encode two different video clips. This will maximize the CPU usage.