Set CPU Utilization?

[arcaninx]

Could someone pls advise me on how to set the max CPU utilization? My Acer laptop always shut down itself if the program is run at full speed.

Thanks

[themaster123]

If you have dual\quad(in case of high end laptops) core you might be able to have mediacoder on use half or a forth of all you cpu. Under the list to encoder under general is a core affinty option that will allow you to limit the core use which might work. If not it might be possible if you use vista or windows 7 to use the built in power management to limit the full clock speed of the cpu. by going into the advance option and forcing the cpu to only goto like 50% maximum it will at most run at 50 clock for example my desktop i3 run at 2.9 with a 50% limit it run at 1.3-1.5 depend of the speedstep closest is without going over the limit. This however require a cpu(my i3 has this) with clock speed thottle function. Speedstep or powernow\cool and quiet(I hear of amd use both those name) If you need picture I can try to put some up.

[Yttrian]

Could someone pls advise me on how to set the max CPU utilization? My Acer laptop always shut down itself if the program is run at full speed.

Thanks

I honestly think Media Coder is a fantastic piece of software, and to add to its large toolbox a throttle would work. Simple CPU util detect is available pretty much by reading the value the Taskmgr.exe function gives, and then throttle using a simple 25/50/75/Max Cpu usage slider. also, to the original post person, go to Run, type taskmgr.exe go to the mediacoder process, and select below normal or lowest priority in the meantime.