Check out my profile for a full rundown of my system, but in the short, I am running a 3.4 ghz quad core phenom II. I'm trying to convert a blu-ray to an AVI custom profile. I changed the thread settings to 4 to allow it to use multiple cores from my processor, but when I check my system resources, it is only using about 70 percent on core 1 (the second core) and the other 3 run at about 20 percent. In the past, I have know video conversion programs to max out my cpu, but I'm only using 35% even with cubase 5 open and while playing a Blu-ray. The files end up taking up about 14 gigs, but the conversion time is upwards of 14 hours each time (some settings have taken 20 hours). I have the conversion priority all the way up, and regardless of overclocking or not, it still seems to take forever.
I have a massive heat sink and have run torture tests for days and my temperatures always are low, but I cannot seem to get this program to crank through the process. Any ideas on how to fix this. I have been through all the system setting I can think of with this program. I even tried another video type (either MKV or MPEG) and used the force optimizations since my processor supports them all and with auto detect optimizations to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have not noticed any slowing down of my computer at all, the only thing the program does is use about 300 - 500 megs of ram while running.