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Old 16th December 2008, 15:43   #835  |  Link
Comatose
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The idea is that x264 will use 100% of your CPU. A decoder can eat some of the available CPU, and even if it's very little (because of the general slowness), some of us do veeeeeeeeery long encodes so even 1% CPU has a big impact in the long run.
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