[mythtv-users] Question on recording sizes and DVD burning

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/21/2014 11:46 AM, Joseph DeGraw wrote:
> On 01/21/2014 11:24 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Joseph DeGraw <coffee412 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> I see that mythmmpeg is still running and taking up ALOT of CPU time. Using
>>> 'Top' it shows approximately 200 in cpu usage. Seems to just sit there for
>>> hours. Is this normal? I dont have any error messages in any of the logs -
>>> mythburn.log, progress.log, kern.log.
>> Video transcoding is extremely CPU intensive.  This is something you
>> should expect to take hours at full CPU utilization.
> Running a 8 core AMD

Considering video encoding is a floating point intensive process, that 
CPU should really only be considered quad-core.