How can I increase conversion speeds?

[Phantoms Cry]

I'm currently using Xvid4PSP on Windows 8. It wasn't even a week ago I had conversion speeds of 20-25 fps. Now it's 3-6, maybe 10 if I'm lucky running other processes in the background.

I'm converting television shows from MKV to AVI. It's always the same settings, but my conversion speeds just dropped. I reckon it had started prior to me attempting to manually set a higher priority on the conversion through task manager.


I'm going to try other converters, but I'm adding sub titles. Only a few programs even allow them, otherwise it's a daunting process I'm not willing to really go through. :/

[enim]

I had conversion speeds of 20-25 fps. Now it's 3-6, maybe 10

What did you change in between? Some settings? Some sw updates? Some hardware? May be your video memory buffers remains full by alien processes. Normally fps should be consistant. At least I never ran into such weird problems.

[Phantoms Cry]

I had conversion speeds of 20-25 fps. Now it's 3-6, maybe 10

What did you change in between? Some settings? Some sw updates? Some hardware? May be your video memory buffers remains full by alien processes. Normally fps should be consistant. At least I never ran into such weird problems.

I've used the same settings, and I haven't updated anything.
My computer is exactly the same as it once was. It just randomly decided to slow itself.


However, prior to it starting to slow, I manually changed it's priority from Above Normal to High.
I don't believe it helped me, and after that conversion ended and I picked up another some time later... it was really slow. :C

[enim]

I've used the same settings, and I haven't updated anything.
My computer is exactly the same as it once was.

For root level diagnosis, you can turn-off (kill) all processes one-by-one except bare minimum system processes. Once you figure out, you can disable that process at system start up. But, it could be the software itself that you are using which runs and execute some processes silently in background. Long journey begins for you.

Meanwhile I am getting busy in my backyard with our new guests to see if they need anything to be served well.

[usually_quiet]

I'm currently using Xvid4PSP on Windows 8. It wasn't even a week ago I had conversion speeds of 20-25 fps. Now it's 3-6, maybe 10 if I'm lucky running other processes in the background.

I'm converting television shows from MKV to AVI. It's always the same settings, but my conversion speeds just dropped. I reckon it had started prior to me attempting to manually set a higher priority on the conversion through task manager.


I'm going to try other converters, but I'm adding sub titles. Only a few programs even allow them, otherwise it's a daunting process I'm not willing to really go through. :/

I would start by downloading and installing Process Explorer from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx. Then, without running XviD4PSP, I'd look for processes other than "Sytem Idle Process"" taking up a lot of CPU cycles. (When the system is idle, "Sytem Idle Process" will normally consume the largest percentage of CPU cycles. That is what is supposed to happen. ) Next do a search to find out what they are and why they might be running. You do not want to kill processes that should be running and are acting as they should.

[Steve Stepoway]

You might check whether your disk has switched from DMA mode to PIO (much slower). This apparently sometimes happens due to a hardware failure. It still runs, just much slower. Sorry, but I don't recall offhand how to do that, but I'm sure someone else will.

[manono]

You might check whether your disk has switched from DMA mode to PIO (much slower).

Yeah, that's the first thing I thought too. I'm on XP, and it's in Device Manager. Find the hard drive and check the Mode. One way is to right-click on My Computer and hit Properties. Hit the Hardware tab and then Device Manager. Then IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers. Double-Click Primary IDE Channel->Advanced Settings->Transfer Mode. Or whatever it is for your computer. Just look around for something being in PIO Mode and change it.

[DarrellS]

When it does that it usually kicks your CPU down also. You can run CPU-Z to check your multiplier and core speed. If it's lower than it's supposed to be then you'll need to go into BIOS and fix it. I used to shut off all the error reporting in XP and I used a bat file that kept Windows from shutting things down. I think by default if it defects ten errors then it shuts stuff down to protect the system and it can be anything from a failed burn to who knows what. You can turn off Dr Watson which causes a lot of problems and turn off error reporting that wants to contact Microsoft every single time there's a glitch in a program.