100% CPU Usage when encoding???

[prototypikal]

when i encode using tmpeg enc my cpu usage runs at 100%, i think this is why my computer freezes.

has anyone had this problem???

my specs:
asus a7a266
amd t-bird 1.4 ghz
winXP
g4 mx440
40gig 7200rpm (master)
100gig 7200rpm (slave)
sony cdrw
dvd


any help would be appreciated...
-Proto

[puertorican138]

You should check to see if you have other programs running in the background.

[Mirror_Image]

If your CPU has a tendency to overheat, then running at ~100% might cause your PC to freeze, but a adequately-cooled CPU should function perfectly at nearly 100%, for hours and hours and hours. In fact, it will encode as fast as it can when running at full tilt. If it ran at 50%, the encode would take roughly twice as long as it would at 100%.

[afwasborstel]

Now what u mean. Got myself also some problems with some divx files. Seems to be it has got something to do with a vbr problem. It wil encode for example for 40 minutes of the movie and then the systems slows down, almost freezes uo(cpu 100%) and encoding time runs up to days. I use the normal templates wich are given by the project wizard. Nothing fancy...just normal...

Did not find a way to work around it. When I encode the same movie with CCE it hasn't got that problem. Maybe more users have this problem. If so...maybe we can work it out together...