chill wrote: > There is an option to allow the external compressor to start in the > background, with a further option to specify the number of > simultaneous compressor threads. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think > this would allow the ripping to continue without waiting for the > compressor, and you could allow, say, 4 compressor threads to run in > parallel.
When I first enabled this option it made a huge difference in rip times, but the reason had nothing to do with concurrent encoding. The reason was CD drive spin down. With this option off, the CD drive would spin down during the compression task and have to spin back up to rip the next track. This led to very poor average read speeds. Once enabled, the drive stayed at full speed and rips speed went up by about a factor of 4. I specified one compressor thread, as it didn't make sense to have competing compression jobs. On my old box, three or four jobs would typically queue up before a rip would finish. On my new Core 2 Duo E6400 system, the encoding almost always beats the next track rip. _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
