I'm in the process of re-encoding my library, but I'm wondering why my average encoding rate is about 1.0x. I'm using foobar2000 and Nero's AAC encoder (latest version w/SSE2) on my P4, 3.4GHz laptop with 1GB of RAM.
Windows XP recognises my processor twice, so I've disabled the one in order to encode only one file at a time. I've also disabled HyperThreading.
When I encode I disable pretty much everything that's running. I've already run a virus scan and my computer has come back clean. Ditto for spyware.
My hard drive is partitioned into three drives, and across all I've probably got about 2.2GB left in terms of free space out of 100GB. That wouldn't be the sole cause, would it?
Full Version: Really, REALLY slow encoding
I do not know, but as a start I would suggest you do one album and see how that works. You may find it faster. If so, do groups of albums. It may just be this size of the library to re-encode is too much overhead. It is that or the damned cold weather. Take you choice. 
Are you sure the laptop isn't running off battery and therefore throttling the cpu speed?
Are you using the internal laptop drive? If it's not a SATA based drive, it's possible that the errors encountered while ripping of a particularly badly damaged CD has caused Windows to downgrade the drive IO interface from DMA to PIO mode. If so, you'll need to fix that.
-brendan
EDIT: well, I assumed you were referring to ripping. if you're just transcoding, ignore this post.
-brendan
EDIT: well, I assumed you were referring to ripping. if you're just transcoding, ignore this post.
QUOTE(boojum @ Mar 6 2007, 13:07) 
I do not know, but as a start I would suggest you do one album and see how that works. You may find it faster. If so, do groups of albums. It may just be this size of the library to re-encode is too much overhead. It is that or the damned cold weather. Take you choice.
I'll give that a shot, but I think it's because of my lack of free hard drive space. I'll try to clear some stuff off tonight or sometime soon.
QUOTE(seanyseansean @ Mar 6 2007, 13:24)
Are you sure the laptop isn't running off battery and therefore throttling the cpu speed?
Yes, it's plugged in, and my screen would appear quite dim if it weren't. Good thought though.
QUOTE(bhoar @ Mar 6 2007, 21:51)
Are you using the internal laptop drive? If it's not a SATA based drive, it's possible that the errors encountered while ripping of a particularly badly damaged CD has caused Windows to downgrade the drive IO interface from DMA to PIO mode. If so, you'll need to fix that.
-brendan
EDIT: well, I assumed you were referring to ripping. if you're just transcoding, ignore this post.
Nope, not ripping, just straight transcoding.
Update: Okay. So I've clean-installed Windows, deleted 60+ GB worth of data to free up the majority of my hard drive, and am running pretty much only Windows and foobar2000, and I'm still seeing encode times of ~1-2x. I've even gone back and re-enabled HyperThreading. My last resort is going to be defragging my hard drive, but I seriously doubt I'll see the drastic improvement that I'm looking for.
Is it possible I just taxed my computer way too much? All I've been using it for is ripping and encoding... for about the last year or so. Is it just going to be perma-slow?
Is it possible I just taxed my computer way too much? All I've been using it for is ripping and encoding... for about the last year or so. Is it just going to be perma-slow?
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