i have a laptop with intel core 2 duo t9300 2.5g processor and 4 gig ddr2 ram and nvidia geforce 9500m gs running windows vista 64 bit. while remuxing video of .h264 into .mkv and doing any other encoding, my cpu usage runs about 90-95% range and moves at about 2.xx frames per second.. is this normal? do i have some setting incorrect? i thought i remembered reading that .h264 technology puts all the load on the graphics card and uses about 2% cpu. or was that only for when watching videos with this technology? i'm just alarmed that my notebook, which i thought had some pretty good specs, is taking so long to complete tasks like this.
Encoding takes an enormous amount of cpu power, the more you have...the more it will take. As far as the video card is concerned, this is only for playback. I personally don't have vista but all your other specs look great, good things however, take time. During such high cpu loads, it's very advisable not to multitask at such a critical point. All i can add further is that you keep your burn speeds low and use the best media you can afford.
i muxed my audio back in with my video and during playback i'm reading about 40-45% cpu usage. is this normal?
also, the video just by itself plays fine, however, when muxed with the audio the video speeds up and slows down and skips a bit and the audio skips some too... any ideas?
