Increasingly slower encoding

[jmancera]

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]

Re: Increasingly slower encoding

Do you have a multi CPU system?

[jmancera]

Re: Increasingly slower encoding

No, I do not have a dual core machine.
Could it be that I defragmented the hard drive?

[Spoon]

Re: Increasingly slower encoding

No defragging should speed it up. With mp3 Lame 20x encoding speed is normal, perhaps you were using mp3 Fraunhofer?

[bhoar]

Re: Increasingly slower encoding

Just to verify - the slowness is in encoding, not ripping, right?

-brendan

[jmancera]

Re: Increasingly slower encoding

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]

Re: Increasingly slower encoding

What format files are you converting to mp3?

[jmancera]

Re: Increasingly slower encoding

.aa
How would it be related to the format if dMC was doing a great job until a few days ago?

[Wayne]

Re: Increasingly slower encoding

Maybe something is running in the background grabbing all the cpu?

[LtData]

Re: Increasingly slower encoding

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