Windows Media 9 Encoder, cpu spikes

[anvil82]

For some reason, just when changing settings in windows media encoder 9, the cpu spikes to 100% and it takes 10 settings just to change the source file, or output filename.

Is there any way to fix this. The quality in wm9 is great, but the program is not.

[legoman666]

anvil82, did you use to frequent the RA2 discussion boards? because if you did, I remember you..... and if you didn't, then you have the same screename as him.....

[anvil82]

lol yes

Don't you remember www.daplayas.com ?

[legoman666]

ya, my parents didn't seem to like me going there for some reason or another, thought it was inappropriate becuz of dat goatse thing (ack)

an answer to your question, buy a faster computer, it never does that on my AMD XP 1800+ oc'ed to 2000+ (1666Mhz)

[anvil82]

I was thinking of upgrading to a athlon 2400+, but the fact that it spikes for 5-10 seconds while just changing a setting is very weird. I'm going to try it on another computer before I try upgrading.

[anvil82]

What mpeg2 codec do you use?

[legoman666]

I opened a .vob (mpeg2) file with gspot and it said it used this: Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder-->DivXG400.

[anvil82]

Hmm, I had "MainConcept MPEG Video Decoder" and it encoded fine but the program spiked in cpu usage like I stated. I then tried the elecard codec, and my when encoding to wmv 9, it would go through the first pass fine, but it would crap out a few seconds after the second pass started.

I uninstalled the Elecard one, and now I am using the batch encoder that is in the windows Media Encoder SDK. You just create a profile for the compression settings in windows media encoder, such as bitrate and such. Then you import that into the batch encoder. You then load the files you want compressed, click start and it encodes them perfectly. Very easy, and the cpu doesn't spike anymore. It uses 99% for encoding, but with windows media encoder it woudl spike after I changed every setting, which was very frustrating.

Thanks for the replies.