Peppercorn Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 Hi I am running MDK 10 Official with all the updates and I have an AMD 2600XP processor. I have no probs with computer atm or the running of the system. However, quite often I look at Gkrellm and the processor is peaking around 99% for no apparent reason. I check everything and nothing unusual is running in the background and as far as I can tell there is no process or program that is setting it off. I am running the 2.6.3-7 kernel . Can someone steer me in some direction as to what may be causing this please?? I know that it is probably a stab in the dark, but I have no idea where to start. Thanks for any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 in a console type top Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 top will show you what processes are using the most CPU power. See the man page for more details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted September 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 Hey Thanks a lot!! It turned out to be wxvlc Can you tell me what that is?? Â thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted September 24, 2004 Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 Here is the explananation of wxvlc WxWindow plugin for the VLC media player  What it is exactly, I don't know.. what are you using vlc a lot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted September 24, 2004 Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 From Google: Â wxWindows frontend for VLC Â http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/wxvlc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted September 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 Actually, I only downloaded it last weekend as I stumbled on it via the net. I am/was very impressed with what it can do especially the converting of one type of video files to another and the speed and qwuality in which it does that! I had never heard of anyone mentioning it for this use. All I have heard about since I have been using Linux for video conversion is transcode or mencoder. Both of which hav confounded me or let me down with the lack of quality that it has produced. Anyone else out there use VLC??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted September 24, 2004 Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 transcode does great for me. I use it with dvd::rip, and the results are excellent. Â Â I will have a look at VLC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted September 24, 2004 Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 so back to your original post, yuo just had it running and forgot, or does this frontend really use 99% of your CPU at times even though you're not actually encoding video? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted September 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 I am not 100% sure yet. I am still sussing out the prog. I have tried to get it to stream over the network to no avail and then the next thing I know it is doing this?? I'm not even sure what it was doing because there was no obvious gui opened. Maybe it was streaming 24 hrs later?? I have to work out how to use it properly before I can answer your question properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 vlc, transcode and mencoder are really all just acting as frontends to the same libraries. Maybe vlc is better at picking good settings for the encoder libraries, but if you get the same settings with all three programs you'd get the same quality output. the heavy lifting is done by the xvid library, or the lame library, or the vorbis library, or the library for whatever codec you're using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 I always thought that the mplayer mencoder project has their own libs..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 don't think so. they may use *different* ones from other projects...they seem to use ffmpeg by default, which I don't think transcode does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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