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Old 15-01-2008   #25 (permalink)
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Re: Multiple Core Support

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Originally Posted by renox View Post
I don't understand why I can't just use 1 harddrive instead of RAID, although I know that RAID5 can speed small writes in my system.

Are we saying here that the bottleneck to ENCODE a file is my harddrive!? I thought the encoding depended on your processor power.

I have been messing around abit with the DVDFab config (changing bitrates, etc..) and now I managed to encode at a faster rate: 82 frames/sec. (My CPU keeps "swinging" between 15% and 40%. (See attachment)
I think the point is that it is one of the possible bottlenecks. The bits have to go somewhere after encoding. I note that you have little free RAM also (according to the screen capture).
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