[MPlayer-users] mencoder and threads

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Jonathan Isom <jeisom at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>  Is it normal for a dual core system to use about 70% cpu per core
> when encoding?  neither core peeks but rather
> both hover around 70%.  This is with x264,  however I've seen similar
> with lavc mpeg2 as well.
>
> Later
>
> Jonathan

Except with certain sets of options that limit threading ability, x264
should easily max out all the cores on your system (assuming you
aren't bottlenecked by input decoding or disk reading).

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