Using my Full CPU Power

[cogman]

Hey all, I have a e6600 OC to 3.1 GHZ and am Using dvdFab to encode my DVD collection to an Xvid Avi. So here is my problem. I can't find out how to get DVDFab to use the full power of my CPU. Currently it only ever goes up to 50% usage no matter what clock speed I am using. I have tried updating Xvid to a recent CVS build, even editing the default xml files to try and tell the Xvid Codec to use multiple threads, but not dice.

So how can I use my full CPU Power? Do I need to use a different program? DvdFab works well and I like the simplicity of it, but I would prefer Speed over Simplicity any day. Im not scared of getting down and dirty and messing with config files or whatever. I would just like to use more then 50% of my CPUs processing power when encoding. Any help?

[akupenguin]

No multithreaded implementation will ever beat multiple independent encoders running in parallel. So if you have multiple dvds to encode and each one only uses 50% cpu, just encode 2 at once.

[cogman]

Is it common then for Multi threaded applications to only use 50% of the CPU? Is there no program out there that can use more of the power? Ohh well, thanks for the advice anyways. I have the full series of MASH coming soon so Ill have a couple of instances going :)

[akupenguin]

No, but it is common for multithreaded xvid to use only 80%, so even if you did get it to work, multiple instances would be better.

[cogman]

So do you think it is possible that DVDFab is TOO threaded? Or do you think that it is not taking advantage of Xvids multithreading. As I recall, Xvids threading is only in the CVS tree, so it is possible that DVDFab is not taking advantage of that, but if there is a way to get it to use Xvid's threading I would love to know. Thanks for the responses btw.