Are there any processes on my pc that i can manipulate, to convert faster?

[snafubaby]

I ask this just to learn how to streamline a video conversion. I know you can sometimes right click and change the priorities of processes of certain programs from "realtime" to "low" and other settings. Sometimes i change the process priority of plugin-container to "abovenormal" when watching videos in Firefox, and it really helps out. The videos play a lot better, with no choppyness. Does anyone have any tips to speed things up by manipulating these process priorities regarding video conversion unitilies like Freemake Video Converter and others? I'd appreciate it. Thank you!

[johns0]

Get a better pc.

[snafubaby]

Thanks! I plan to do that. A quad core gaming pc with about 5gb's of memory is what i'll get in about a month from now.

[johns0]

Get 16gb of memory,5 gb is too low.

[LigH.de]

Waste as few CPU cycles as possible with other services or applications running in parallel to your encodes.

If you have a lot of virtual cores, and your overall CPU utilization is poor (due to limited parallelization of the encoding algorithm, as reported for HEVC in x265), try to run several instances of the encoder to encode more than one movie in parallel. (This may be less an issue for AVC in x264.)

Get a CPU with modern instruction sets; modern encoders often make heavy use of parallelization (SIMD) and vector math instructions, and may gain a remarkable boost from the availability of such specific instruction sets. Just recently measured, x265 can be more than a quarter faster on CPUs supporting AVX2 instructions than on most similar CPUs just without them (1, 2).

[newpball]

I ask this just to learn how to streamline a video conversion. I know you can sometimes right click and change the priorities of processes of certain programs from "realtime" to "low" and other settings. Sometimes i change the process priority of plugin-container to "abovenormal" when watching videos in Firefox, and it really helps out. The videos play a lot better, with no choppyness. Does anyone have any tips to speed things up by manipulating these process priorities regarding video conversion unitilies like Freemake Video Converter and others? I'd appreciate it. Thank you!

Generally that is not going to make any difference.

Overclock your computer or as was suggested earlier, get a faster computer.

By the way the bottleneck is usually the CPU but it also could be something else for instance the hard drive.

What are the specs of your system?

[Krispy Kritter]

I ask this just to learn how to streamline a video conversion. I know you can sometimes right click and change the priorities of processes of certain programs from "realtime" to "low" and other settings. Sometimes i change the process priority of plugin-container to "abovenormal" when watching videos in Firefox, and it really helps out. The videos play a lot better, with no choppyness. Does anyone have any tips to speed things up by manipulating these process priorities regarding video conversion unitilies like Freemake Video Converter and others? I'd appreciate it. Thank you!

Generally that is not going to make any difference.

Overclock your computer or as was suggested earlier, get a faster computer.

By the way the bottleneck is usually the CPU but it also could be something else for instance the hard drive.

What are the specs of your system?

I agree.

Video processing/conversion is largely cpu speed dependent. You can verify by the watching the cpu usage during a conversion. If your cpu usage hits 100% and flat lines, the cpu is the bottleneck. If it's constantly fluctuating, it's likely the HDD or another subsystem.

In any case, if you want it done faster, upgrade the hardware.

[snafubaby]

Thank you for the suggestions. I have a quad core laptop with 8gb's of memory. From what i have learned, most laptops have 5400RPM HDD's in them from the factory. It's always best to have a 7200RPM HDD, or of course, the best option would be an SSD. I will invest in an SSD within about 10 days from now, to optimally speed up video conversions. Thanks again!

[sharkbite]

' Does anyone have any tips to speed things up by manipulating these process priorities regarding video conversion utitilies like Freemake Video Converter and others? I'd appreciate it. Thank you!"

Hi Snafubaby - it depends on what you mean by "Speed things up"....

I have a 6 core phenom 2 that (using freemake) converts Mpeg2 transport streams to mp4 about 6 times faster than real time.
This is using compression settings that give me the same frame size and speed as the original, and results in an mp4 about half the size of the Mpeg2

While this is going on - the CPU is maxxed out, the hard drive is barely being used, and it only needs about 600Mb of RAM (thats right, less than 1 gig)

I imagine your quad core is about the same performance?

To go faster in freemake - i need a gruntier CPU, or a modern one with better instruction set.
I don't need more ram, or an SSD since neither memory or disk is under stress.

Freemake also has the ability to use CUDA - which uses hardware to perform encoding and is present on some NVIDIA graphics cards.
This used to make things a lot faster - but with updated drivers, lately the performance boost has not been much.

I am now using DVDFAB - with NVIDIA CUDA i am getting encoding speeds of at least 20x faster than real time. (when it doesn't crash)

Once again, RAM and disk are barely raising a sweat.

If i were to build a new PC now - i'd get at least an i5 with Hyperthreading, 8g of the fastest ram you can afford, SSD for the operating system disk,
and 2 HDD for conversion (one to read from, and one to write to)

If you are getting 6x with freemake now - it might not be worth the cost.

Hope this helps