CCE encode and multitasking

[newguy007]

Has anyone ever successfully tried burning a DVD while doing an encode? I'm wondering if any of the two process would result in failure -- especially the DVD burn -- maybe because of not having enough memory/cpu resources.

[Erik_Osterholm]

The encoding should never result in failure barring a crash. It would just take longer. The DVD burn likely /will/ result in a buffer underrun unless you lower the priority of the encoding app. If you want to encode and burn at the same time, that's really the thing to do.

[r6d2]

In my experience, both CCE and TMPGEnc run best when in idle priority. They let all other aps to use the available resources if they ask for it.

Running them in normal or high priority may make your system unresponsive and unable to do other stuff, and it does not get results really sooner (some users have reported something like 3% speed gain at "high", too little gain for the trouble).

I have also noticed that CCE uses much more resources than TMPGEnc, but ends faster.

Burning while encoding (or doing any CPU/IO intensive task) is generally not encouraged because of buffer underruns. However, Nero at least has a very robust buffer underrun prevention feature, which I use and has never given me an unusable disk.

However, the system turns really unresponsive when doing this, so to make a long story short, it will probably work, but you won't gain much time. CCE encoding speed will drop as needed in order to let Nero do its job.

(TMPGEnc has a "pause" feature you can use, so you do your burning and then resume the encoding. But AFAIK, CCE does not.)