Holy sh1t, it hammers my cpu when encoding dvds....

[Tbirdkid]

Never realized just how much it would hammer a cpu.... but my mobile 2400 is getting hammered.... is this right? 100 percent useage?

 

[THUGSROOK]

yes, encoding is a 100% load job.
very demanding on a system.

 

[Nebor]

Ha, it only requires 50% of my Pentium 4 with hyperthreading!

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: Nebor
Ha, it only requires 50% of my Pentium 4 with hyperthreading!

50% IS 100% for a HT P4. The other 50% is NOT true cpu cycles but the HT working to fill in the miss predicitions of the large pipeline. I HAD a P4 setup then went to a Athlon 64 system, and am very happy

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975

Originally posted by: Nebor
Ha, it only requires 50% of my Pentium 4 with hyperthreading!

50% IS 100% for a HT P4. The other 50% is NOT true cpu cycles but the HT working to fill in the miss predicitions of the large pipeline. I HAD a P4 setup then went to a Athlon 64 system, and am very happy

Oh my gosh really you're a genius and my hero will you have my babies?

 

[yourdeardaniel]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: Marlin1975

Originally posted by: Nebor
Ha, it only requires 50% of my Pentium 4 with hyperthreading!

50% IS 100% for a HT P4. The other 50% is NOT true cpu cycles but the HT working to fill in the miss predicitions of the large pipeline. I HAD a P4 setup then went to a Athlon 64 system, and am very happy

Oh my gosh really you're a genius and my hero will you have my babies?

no he's mine jk ha ha

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: yourdeardaniel

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: Marlin1975

Originally posted by: Nebor
Ha, it only requires 50% of my Pentium 4 with hyperthreading!

50% IS 100% for a HT P4. The other 50% is NOT true cpu cycles but the HT working to fill in the miss predicitions of the large pipeline. I HAD a P4 setup then went to a Athlon 64 system, and am very happy

Oh my gosh really you're a genius and my hero will you have my babies?

no he's mine jk ha ha

You keep him, his sarcasm meter is busted anyways.

 

[DaNorthface]

if your cpu usage is lower, it just might mean your dvdrom can't read very fast

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: DaNorthface
if your cpu usage is lower, it just might mean your dvdrom can't read very fast

That would only makes sense if you were encoding off of a DVD (IE copy) with dvdshrink and not necessarily the only method ppl use to encode DVDs....

HT only shows 50% but yes it is full load....however I can game a bit (UT2003) or even surf, watch a DVD etc and have minimal to no loss in actual encoding time. Do that with your AMD, Marlin!!!

I am glad you are happy, for whatever that means.....

 

[byosys]

Is making use of 100% of your CPU a bad thing? Just asking.

 

[Stormgiant]

No, it's just using it for what it was ment on the first place.

 

[Duvie]

Encoding is one of those things that will always benefit from faster and faster processors....I mean I use to do 8-12 hours encodings of files to divx 3.11 codec at the time that was no where near DVD quality. Now I can do them in real time or less with video and audio at much higher bitrates and beautiful quality. Ofcourse with the induction of dvd burners I have moved away from Divx and just encode straight to mpeg2 and burn DVDs.....

Right now I am converting my huge divx titles to DVD standard and with VBR 2 pass with high bitrates and DVD standard resoluttion I can take 3 hours on video for a 2 hour movie...And that is with TMPGenc which benefits P4's tremendously with +20% increases with HT optimization for multithreaded cpus....

Cpus will benefit faster and faster encoding until the HDDs just can't write the data fast enough or until we start encoding on the fly to burners and our burners start hindering us...

 

[Shimmishim]

Originally posted by: Duvie

Originally posted by: DaNorthface
if your cpu usage is lower, it just might mean your dvdrom can't read very fast

That would only makes sense if you were encoding off of a DVD (IE copy) with dvdshrink and not necessarily the only method ppl use to encode DVDs....

HT only shows 50% but yes it is full load....however I can game a bit (UT2003) or even surf, watch a DVD etc and have minimal to no loss in actual encoding time. Do that with your AMD, Marlin!!!

I am glad you are happy, for whatever that means.....

<sigh>

i miss hyperthreading...

the only real thing i miss about p4's....

 

[piasabird]

Might be faster if you had a hyperthreading encoding job.

 

[ALIEN3001]

Every modern processor can manage to do one CPU-intensive task (eg encoding) and a lot of other tasks (Winamp, FireFox, eMule,...), doing two CPU-intensive tasks will give you very low FPS on a non-HT CPU, but if the CPU is fast it will complete the encoding task sooner and you can still plat UT2k4, while a HT machine will give you about half the FPS, but the encoding will also last longer.

 

[Safeway]

Yep --^