computer cpu thingy

paddyrg

Many tools rely on a subset of ffmpeg, might be worth installing? It should speak Matroska

enfield_freddy

umm , judt working on this "small" problem , just downloaded VLC player and set it to convert a 4 gig film from mkv to mp4 , but it looks like its doing it in real time , or a 2820 cpu is struggling?

paddyrg

Real-time is fast, used to be much slower. A single core will be working on it, it has to decompress, render, recompress and package (along with audio), it's quite a lot of work, especially as it's one-pass compression so doesn't have the economy of using a first pass to pre-calculate a lot of the moves (b-frame lookahead for efficiency). Video transcoding is just a big job. At least with squeeze you can set up a watch folder so any clips you dump in there can start processing in the background/multiple concurrent clips overnight.

enfield_freddy

this is what you get , converting a mkv file (4gig) to an mp4 using a intel (baby) NUC (2820)

enfield_freddy

just seen the impossible , the CPU usage flicked upto 107%


more power scotty!


and I wondered why adobe was struggling