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Title: Flac to MP3 conversion for iPod -- hot CPU
Post by: castingflame on February 28, 2008, 04:05:50 pm

I set off a sync to my iPod with MC. I came back to it 10 minutes later and I notice that my touch pad was red hot and CPU temp was at 79 degrees. Normally it runs at about 55. After investigation I found that MC was running both of the CPU cores at 98/99% with 2 lame processes converting on the fly flac files to mp3 for my iPod. It just happened that there were several flac files in a row and didn't have time to cool down.   Not Good  :-[

I converted the flac to mp3. Strangely though, when MC was just converting, it only ran one lame process and the CPU stayed cool.



Mediacentre 12.0.441, Pentium core 1.6 (dual core), XP Home Premium, 2GB RAM

Title: Re: Flac to MP3 conversion for iPod -- hot CPU
Post by: Matt on February 28, 2008, 04:13:01 pm

You can configure the number of simultaneous conversions.

Normally it's considered a good thing to use a multi-core processor to its potential.

Title: Re: Flac to MP3 conversion for iPod -- hot CPU
Post by: castingflame on February 28, 2008, 05:21:54 pm

Yes, I see the logic. It was a heads up really for people with laptops which tend to have constant heat issues.

But I forgot to say that it was a laptop!!