Encoding two movies at once?

[PnutButtRjarZ]

One question for you guys........is it possible to rip two movies to your hard drive, and then open up two windows of TMPGE and encode two movies at once?? The system I am running is AMD 1700, 256 ram, 40gig HD, Win ME. I've started trying it to see if it works, and I can run two lots of TMPGE while encoding, but will the encoded versions have glitches in them like no sound or anything like that?
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Pnut

[Chips144]

Yes, you can run two or more TMPGEnc jobs at the same time, but if you are expecting to save time, you will be disappointed. If you try to run 2 at the same time with the same priorities, the two jobs will just evenly split the available CPU. The result is that the two movies will be done at approximately the same time, but that time will be equal to the time it would take to run each job consecutively. In other words, you haven't gained anything. It is better to use the batch feature in TMPGEnc and load multiple jobs. Only 1 job runs at a time and the next job starts immediately after the first has finished. There is one more advantage to batch over simultaneous jobs. Lets say that you have 5 movies being done at the same time (5 seperate TMPGEnc processes). Lets also say that the priorities are all the same (if 1 is set high and the others low, the 1 set high will get more CPU). Now lets assume that it would normally take 4 hours for each movie or 20 hours total to complete. After 19 hours and 59 minutes you have a power failure. You have just lost ALL of the encoding on ALL 5 movies. Now lets say you were running in batch mode instead. When the power failure occurs, you will lose the LAST movie that was being encoded, but the other 4 will be finished. Bottom line = use batch mode.

[PnutButtRjarZ]

Cheers Mate!!! Summed it all up in one reply!!!