Does make MKV utilize quad cores?

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uslaves
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Does make MKV utilize quad cores?

#1 Post by uslaves » Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:40 am

i take it that make mkv does not take advantage of multiple cores? i had a e5300 (old duo) processor and then just upgraded to a quad core 9650 (fasted quad available) and there was no change in conversion speed. checked the core usage and all 4 were all running about 20-30%.

I'm converting ripped blu rays that are on my harddrive, not reading from disk.

btw, this is a great little program. i would buy for certain if i could get it to rip from my blu ray drive (have another thread on that) and if it could use quad cores that would be icing on the cake.

thanks

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Re: Does make MKV utilize quad cores?

#2 Post by subslug » Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:09 am

MakeMKV doesn't do anything that would utilize Quad Core support. Everything it does simply relies on your drive or disc read/write speeds.

There's no encoding happening.
I can copy an 8Gb iso file to MKV in less than a minute on MakeMKV. Fast enough for me. :)

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Re: Does make MKV utilize quad cores?

#3 Post by mike admin » Tue Jan 19, 2010 8:21 am

This is not exactly true. MakeMKV decrypts data, applies BD+ FUTs and repacks video/audio to MKV - all of it is a lightweight reencoding. MakeMKV uses multiple cores and works much better on 2 cores then on one, but anything above will not change things much.

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Re: Does make MKV utilize quad cores?

#4 Post by uslaves » Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:42 am

makes sense mike. i think my bottleneck is the disk drive. i can speed it up a bit if i transfer between 2 different disk (read from one and write to the other rather than reading and writing to the same drive). it reads at about 80MB/s which is not fantastic but not too bad i think.

are you really getting 8 gig conversion in less than 60 sec? that is a transfer rate over 133MB/s which sounds amazing. are you reading to one drive writing to another, or using the same drive to read and write? also, what type of drive to you have - got to get me one of those

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Re: Does make MKV utilize quad cores?

#5 Post by GoColts » Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:50 am

great 2 hear, i have a Q6600 Quad Core & its good to hear this info!

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Re: Does make MKV utilize quad cores?

#6 Post by ELVISPOPCORN » Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:41 pm

GoColts wrote:great 2 hear, i have a Q6600 Quad Core & its good to hear this info!
Heck, I wish I had a Quad freakin' core! :)

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