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cogd115
15th October 2003, 03:07
I have been using Nandub to mux mp3 audio and video. Recently, it is behaving rather eratically. Its video render rate fluctuates greatly minute by minute. For instance, it starts with 400fps and then over 10 or 15 seconds gradually dies out to absolute zero fps. It stays at zero for a while and repeats the pattern again till the end.

The result is longer muxing time. It used to take about 5 to 6 minutes to mux, say, 700mb and/or 700000 frames. Now, it takes good 13 to 15 minutes. This happened to my last three encodings. It puzzles me to no end as to why this occurs.

When I check the taskmanager, my system got almost 80 to 90 percent of cpu and ram in reserve or system idle process. So, it may not be caused by the computer. Worse yet, when Nandub is on, it slows everything down significantly -- exaggerating a bit, to alomost halt -- although the system got plenty of cpu and ram reserve. Especially, graphic rendering gets a serious hit even though the system has more than 95% cpu at system idle process. I tried to change priority and stuff, but nothing seems to help. It just bogs down the whole system.

Is this some kind of a bug inherent to Nandub? Or is this some type of a system problem such as incompatibility?

My computer lately is producing clipped sound that I am afraid may screw up my speakers on which I spend a good deal of Benjamin. Some hacker screws up my internet setting without my knowledge. In addition to these, the problem with Nandub is kinda tempting me to reformat everything, grrrrrrrrr...

Oh well.. Before I do anything radical, I would appreciate if someone had a similar problem with Nandub and fixed it..

manono
15th October 2003, 05:05
Hi-

Is your hard drive almost full and/or heavily fragmented? I'd suggest defragging first. And save to a different drive if at all possible. Those times are way too much.

jggimi
15th October 2003, 15:55
And double check your processing priority for Nandub in the Options...Preferences pull-down menu. If it's set to idle, rather than normal, that could be another reason why you might see performance problems.

cogd115
16th October 2003, 18:18
Thanks for the comments, guys. I deleted many movies I had in the hard disk and deframented it. Voila, it is moving its lazy azz again.. I did not even know you could set priority in the preference pulls down menu. Ah, the wonderful world of newbie to comp in general, let alone encoding... :)