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jmancera
12-13-2007, 01:03 PM
Sirs,
I have used dbpoweramp succesfully for a while and Lame encoding has always been at 45X to 51X speed. Two days ago it started to go much slower: Starts at those high speeds for like a second and then it drops to between 16X and 20X.

I need help.

Thanks
Spoon
12-13-2007, 03:47 PM
Do you have a multi CPU system?
jmancera
12-13-2007, 04:23 PM
No, I do not have a dual core machine.
Could it be that I defragmented the hard drive?
Spoon
12-13-2007, 05:10 PM
No defragging should speed it up. With mp3 Lame 20x encoding speed is normal, perhaps you were using mp3 Fraunhofer?
bhoar
12-13-2007, 06:12 PM
Just to verify - the slowness is in encoding, not ripping, right?

-brendan
jmancera
12-13-2007, 10:16 PM
Yes. I am using the DirectShow codec to encode to mp3 Lame. Since I installed the new version I had enjoyed +/- 50X encoding, this lowering less than 20X increases times by too much. I was using 160 bit rate I even lowered that, but ecnoding is not faster.

J
Wayne
12-14-2007, 05:27 AM
What format files are you converting to mp3?
jmancera
12-14-2007, 10:32 AM
.aa
How would it be related to the format if dMC was doing a great job until a few days ago?
Wayne
12-14-2007, 03:22 PM
Maybe something is running in the background grabbing all the cpu?
LtData
12-14-2007, 06:46 PM
Unfortunately, due to action taken by Audible, we cannot assist you in converting from .aa. See here: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=8981