MEGUI - is there a way to do this automatically?

[tomos]

what i do is, setup a load of things to encode using 2 passes.

now, the 1st pass never uses all the cpu like the 2nd pass does. what i do is suspend the 2nd passes of all jobs and let megui run all the 1st passes first (1 per core). then, when alls done i go back to 1 worker and run the 2nd passes one at a time.

is there a way to get MEGUI to run like this automatically so i don't have to pause etc etc myself?

[Sharktooth]

it's not a megui problem but a x264 limitation (if it could be defined as that...). you probably set a high number of b-frames along with b-frames placement set at optimal.

[tomos]

sorry, i mean is there a way for it to do the 1st passes for all jobs first? then do the 2nd passes? so on a 6 core system it would run 6 seperate 1st passes 1st, then run the 2nd pass 1 at a time?

would be more time efficient no?

[Sharktooth]

yes. but you should prepare ever encoding and assing a different worker for each job you want to run concurrently.