Sudden increase of speed???

[skutny]

Yesterday, I was manually splitting a movie using VOBEdit I was demuxing by VOB ID, the movie had 8 VOB's so I knew it would take a while, as usual I followed 2Cool suggestion on taking the dialog box to the bottom of the screen so only the blue bar at top remains so I can see the % complete.

Then I opened MS Media player to listen to some MP3's while I was waiting, WOW! to my surprise the % complete took off, at least twice the speed, so I shut down Media player and it went back to normal speed, the I re-opened Media player and it took off again.

The 8 VOB files took half the time to demux than usual, and also half the time to join cell/VOB files.

Now my curiosity was peaked, mounted an DVD.ISO in Daemon and fired up DVD Decrypter to rip by files, Decrypter usually tops at 10.1x but then I turned on Media player and it went up to 25.5x and climbed to 35.5x and slowly settled to 23x by the time the DVD was done, the log showed an average of 26.2x.

Please try it for yourselves and let me know if it worked for you too. I was not playing any music, only had Media player opened and shrunk to the task bar.

Is there anybody out there that can explain this wonderful time saver??

skutny

Gigabyte motherboard, P4 3.06
1Gb Memeory
1- 80Gb WD hard drive for OS
2- 120 Gb WD for video

[mpucoder]

Did it really go faster, or just say it was faster? I mean, check it with a stopwatch or wall clock. I've seen lots of applications that slow the PC's RTC (Real Time Clock) down because the interrupt handler for clock ticks gets shut off. So the clock slows down, and things like download speeds seem to increase.

[skutny]

Originally posted by mpucoder
Did it really go faster, or just say it was faster? I mean, check it with a stopwatch or wall clock. I've seen lots of applications that slow the PC's RTC (Real Time Clock) down because the interrupt handler for clock ticks gets shut off. So the clock slows down, and things like download speeds seem to increase.

I understand what you are saying, but for me it really did go faster, I timed it.

Normally from Daemon a DVD around 7.? Gb takes about 8-10 minutes, with media player on, ti takes only 4 minutes.

What else I noticed is that W/O Media player the hard drive light goes on and off as the file is being demuxed, and with media player the drive light is on brightly for the duration of the demuxing.

Can somebody try thsi and provide results.

Thanks, skutny

[djan]

Maybe the media player enables something like a special routine that give punch to the processor. :)