Running other programs while running gknot?

[blomp]

has anyone ever encountered problems running other programs in the background while gknot encodes? certainly when using flaskmpeg ages ago this caused a program. the other program is only taking up a bit of the cpu, and i have plenty of ram and doom9's guide says u should be able to use your pc while it encodes, but i was wondering if anyone had problems.

[UHT]

I have my machine encoding with gknot pretty much all the time and using it at the same time, running programs like lightwave and director and have yet to run into issues which have been caused by this. of course this could depend on which OS you are using (im on xp)

machine is athlon xp 1700+ msi k7t266 proRU with 512mb DDR ram

[seoulsteve]

i'm using windows 2000 under a celeron 850mhz with 264mb of ram. i've had crashes periodically when GKnot is doing the audio (my system is to blame for this, not GKNot i'm sure). if i wait until the audio is done, i can use my computer normally (normal use is basic internet, listening to music, etc.). the only noticeable difference in performance is speed. GKnot and the programs it uses eat up a lot of my resources, even if my task manager says otherwise.

[alexk7110]

I started encoding with WinMe on my machine and I can say that nothing went wrong except the fact that everything else was running slooow, since the day I installed WinXP all I can say is that I don't even notice that I encode in the background, all this on an Athlon 1200 with 512Mb RAM.

[UHT]

one thing which might help, if you are not doing it already is setting virtual dub to idle mode
bring up the vdub window, click dub in progress>show status window>choose idle and then close that window, remembering to keep the main vdub window open

[blomp]

thanx for that ppl, i'm reasurred now :)

[rui]

Originally posted by UHT
one thing which might help, if you are not doing it already is setting virtual dub to idle mode
bring up the vdub window, click dub in progress>show status window>choose idle and then close that window, remembering to keep the main vdub window open

Hey UHT, maybe you should use that in the Gnot FAQ? :)
It's related to Vdub but at the same time its part of Gnot.

[Acaila]

You could also just go to VDub's properties and set idle or normal or whatever as default, then everytime you encode it automatically uses those settings.

[UHT]

ill add it on the next update (probably sometime today)