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Re: Ogg Vorbis encoder speed



On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 22:29, Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote:
>   Hi,
>   I am trying out the jack cd ripper program and using oggenc as the encoder.
> It reads music tracks at 5.0x but encodes at 0.1x. Is that normal for ogg? Jack
> is set to use one encoder at a time.
> 
> My machine:
> 475 Mhz AMD K-6
> 96 Mb ram
> 20 gig HD
> Debian Woody using 2.4.18-k6 kernel

If some other task is stealing the CPU, try upping (or downing ATCMB)
the nice value of the programme. You'll need to be root to get nice
values below 0

nice -19 jack

Expect slow system performance as jack steals *all* the CPU.

Kind Regards
Crispin Wellington

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