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notjoe · 10-25-2012, 02:15 AM

Multiple reasons.
1) The process is waiting for other resources to free up and therefore cannot go full speed.
2) The codec you're encoding in to doesn't support multiple processors (cores on a processor). For example, you have a CPU with 4 cores. The codec your encoding does not support SMP. You'll only encode using a single core (or 25% of the overall CPU power).

10-25-2012, 02:15 AM
notjoe Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 5,599	Multiple reasons. 1) The process is waiting for other resources to free up and therefore cannot go full speed. 2) The codec you're encoding in to doesn't support multiple processors (cores on a processor). For example, you have a CPU with 4 cores. The codec your encoding does not support SMP. You'll only encode using a single core (or 25% of the overall CPU power).