Does CCE support a dual CPU setup?

[peasoup]

Just wondered cause an extra cpu doesnt half speed up the encoding process.

[SLK001]

How are you feeding it your video stream? If you are frameserving, the frameserver is NOT dual processor capable and this is your bottleneck.

[peasoup]

yeh im frame serving.....i guess theres no way around this? well no way that would make the process any quicker

[snowmoon]

You can run two processes in parallel since one CPU would be idle ( assuming you are not IO bound to begin with ).

[EnemyWithin]

I'm new to CCE, but testing it out the other day had both my CPU's around 80-85% (DVD2AVI->AVISYNTH->CCE). A single pass on a 2 hr movie took just over 1 hour if I remember correctly. Speed was around 1.8

[peasoup]

Thats damn quick enemy! What cpus do u have? mine only seem to run at 60 odd % capacity and a two hour movie takes about two hours......im using vfapi oposed to avisynth wonder if that makes a difference?

[EnemyWithin]

My main system is 2x2100 MP's. Avisynth definately makes a difference, as it probably took twice as long with VFAPI.