Flash 8 Video Encoder multiple instances

Question

Is there any way I can set up to run multiple instances of
Flash 8 Video Encoder to take advantage of a multi core resource? I
have a dual CPU dual Opteron box (ie, 4 cores available) and find
it disappointing to see such slow renders and all that CPU going to
waste.
On the other hand, does anyone know of a really good, fast,
multi-threaded ON2 VP6 solution? I also use Autodesk Cleaner which
is still dependent on the Flash 8 encoder (and therefor on
Quicktime) and doesn't do any better, and is also very unstable
around Quicktime.

Answer 1

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Originally posted by:
Nickels55
The link above also mentions:
Using the new encoding thread priority setting, we cranked
the slider all the way to max, to make sure that Squeeze was using
all the power available to it.
Make sure you don't forget t do that.
Ah, yes, I had missed that, thank you. There are two sliders
(Win Version) : Compression Thread Active Priority and Inactive
Priority. I'm not sure what that means, but did a test with just
the active thread to max, and it made no difference to apparent cpu
core activity nor to render time. I've just tried it again with
both sliders maxed, with the same result. It may be that on a
machine that hasn't got much headroom, or is concurrently doing a
lot of other work, that this makes a difference. It may also be the
difference between the Win and Mac versions of the software and the
respective OSes. (Maybe it isn't even hooked up for
Win :-) )
Anyway, really appreciate the input, I'm pretty sold on
Squeeze with ON2 VP6 for my Flash work, sticking with Cleaner for
my Windows Media, runs really well. I've just started an overnight
test running Squeeze on Flash output and Cleaner on WMV output
concurrently. Still no where near maxing the cores, so will be
interesting to see what it does to render times.