Using Computer While Running RB

It sounds like some people have been able to multitask, but I'll try doing my backups overnight for now to be safe. Thanks for the feedback.

 

You guys are lucky. Today is my first time using RB with HC and after almost 6 hours I am only 52.4% complete. I really can't let my PC remain idle since 12 hours is a long time even for an overnight session and since I am studying, classical must play. But then again, I have every single worthy security installed and running on my PC: SpywareBlaster, SpywareGuard, Spybot, Microsoft Antispyware, Ad-Aware Professional with ad-watch, and Norton Antivirus (not to mention AnyDVD and Firefox.) I sure hope the DVD will turn out to be perfect. Some say that if I buy the CCE, I'll get faster encoding times, if not a little better quality. Do you know how much faster will it be?

512 RAM, 1.80 GHz

 

cce is the fastest encoder but only marginally. did you try going offline and shuting down all background app's even spyware& anti-virus? since you are offline this should not hurt you!

what title are you rebuilding??? what version of rebuilder are you using?(pro?) I was once told any movies with interleaving will take a long time on the freeware versions!

 

not sure how much faster CCE will be, but I have heard that it is faster. What are your PC specs? I have a 2.2 GHz CPU and 1 GB of RAM and I still get 2 hours+ encode times, slower PCs with less RAM will get even higher encode times. Do you use the Undot or Deen plugins or any other AVISynth plugins? Those will also increase your encode times by quite a bit.

I would recommend ending all those processes like all that spyware stuff while doing a movie. Those all eat resources and it appears that you have a lot of them. Personally I only use Microsoft AntiSpy and Norton AntiVirus, since I've been running Firefox I haven't run into spyware or adware like I used to with Internet Explorer.

 

using my pc when converting i cannot agree to only 1-5% decrease

it was considerably more the last couple of times i compared encoding speeds

of course it heavily depends on what you're doing with the pc

 

Hi vurbal,

I guess I don't understand how to set up dvd-rb in idle priority. Could you further explain please. I'm interested. Thanks.

Mort

 

1.
open notepad

2.
insert this:

start /low Rebuilder.exe

3.
save the file into your rebuilder directory and set the extension to *.bat instead of *.txt

4.
doubleclick this new rebuilder_low.bat (or whatever you have named it)

 

Thanks UncasMS. I'll give it a go.

 

Wow dvd-rb idle priority made all the difference in the world. My pc used to drag even trying to surf the web while dvd-rb/cce was running, now I can't even tell it's running. Cool. I'll have to see how much it slowed it down.

Mort

 

that actually surprises me a little bit as you said you were using a 2.8 @ 3.x pentium

running rb + hc/procoder/cce has not slowed me down noticably on an athlon64 3500 + 1gb ram

will give it a try again this very minute out of curiosity

 

Yeah suprised me a bit too. Almost hated useing dvd-rb/cce during the day in case I needed to access the web. I could still surf but took about 3 times as long to open pages. I can't even tell rb/cce is running now (right now as I type). I haven't noticed that idle mode has slowed the encode time down.

 

i have 100% cpu usage this minute running:

rb pro + hc 016 test release
firefox with 2 tabs + 1 download
quintessential mp3 player
total commander
remote admin

rb + hc run in normal priority and i can spot no lag at all

 

so with all this multitasking you guys are doing, are there errors on the output files?

 

Hi squizzle,

I've never had any errors even before I was useing idle mode and my pc was doggy.

Mort

 

a minor correction, I haven't been able to encode anything in under an hour. On large sized DVD's my fastest was 72 minutes but my average is between 78 and 84 minutes. As Vurbal just stated you need SSE2 instructions to benefit from speed gains. In RB under the idct settings I've been using the one that is the third from the bottom.

 

Hi Soph,

Yeah I corrected myself. I was over bragging your achievements.

Would you please explain those idct settings a little more for me. Will it work with my P4 2.8 ghz @ 3.2 ghz?

Mort

 

You'll find it under Avisynth options in DVD Rebuilder Pro. There's a list that pops up with several choices. I wish I could tell you more but I just did a reformat and reinstall and I don't have copy of RB/Pro at this time.

I was messing with over clocking and some things got corrupted to the point of failing to boot.

 

Encoders are CPU intensive (virtually 100%) and the faster the CPU is the more they'll make use of it. There is no such thing as true multi tasking on a single core CPU, what's happening is that windows is switching back and forth between them (oscillating) and if you're using a single processor then you will definitely see some slowdown.

If you're using a dual core CPU then windows can assign one application per core but if you're using CCE then it's going to use both cores because it's multi threaded and it will use virtually 100% of both of them. When you're using RB/avisynth they're single threaded applications and you could see some increased speeds but when they're being used by CCE, you should still experience a slow down.