Stopping VirtualDubMod taking over the PC.

[OM2]

Can someone tell me how to stop VirtualDubMod from taking over my PC?

I'm using it to take a DivX movie, resizing it and saving it as a DivX movie again.

In a post sometime ago, someone told me that I could control it by changing it form being in Full Processing mode.
As I remember... you could set this up before... or even during conversion.
I can't seem to find out how to do this while resizing my DivX.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.


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[edDV]

Explain how it is "taking over the PC".

[OM2]

sorry... i mean it hogs the cpu.
so... when i try to use other applications... i have to wait much much longer for them to laucnh and respond when i do things.
does that make sense?

[A_T]

Open up Task Manager.

Right click on the process.

Choose Set Priority>Low.

[kschang]

You have to turn on the status display, then you can choose how much CPU to give it, from normal, all the way down to low.

[redwudz]

You can lower it's priority, but at the expense of slowing down it's operations. Most any encoder uses close to 100% of the available CPU power. If it didn't, it would take longer to complete the encode.

Of course if you have a fast CPU, you could slow it down to maybe 75% and not lose too much speed. But any other computer tasks should be ones that don't demand to much from the CPU. I wouldn't recommend a game of Doom, for example.

[jagabo]

Lowering VirtualDub's priority does not slow it down appreciably if you aren't using other CPU intensive tasks. I usually run it at Idle priority:



You can set the default priority via Options -> Preferences.

[OM2]

aaah... ooops... sorry it was staring me in the face all the time!



thanks.