So I noticed the other day after I encoded some new video ( I only do this about once a month ) to H.264, it was taking noticeably longer to complete, by at least 33%!
( I have a Dual 1.8GHZ G5, 3.5 GB of memory, so any slow down is noticeable )
I checked the process Activity Monitor to see if anything was hung and sapping away CPU ... any no problem there, but I did see in the CPU usage section that the QuicktimeHelper application was showing a very large percentage of "niced" cpu. Being a former unix administrator, I promptly dropped to a shell, and reniced it to -31, and bingo! My performance was back up to where I was used to it for encoding.
So the question is.... is this some sort of new "feature" of the latest quicktime version, or what else might cause this problem?
My machine was otherwise idle except for safari.
Ideas?
( I have a Dual 1.8GHZ G5, 3.5 GB of memory, so any slow down is noticeable )
I checked the process Activity Monitor to see if anything was hung and sapping away CPU ... any no problem there, but I did see in the CPU usage section that the QuicktimeHelper application was showing a very large percentage of "niced" cpu. Being a former unix administrator, I promptly dropped to a shell, and reniced it to -31, and bingo! My performance was back up to where I was used to it for encoding.
So the question is.... is this some sort of new "feature" of the latest quicktime version, or what else might cause this problem?
My machine was otherwise idle except for safari.
Ideas?