[zeugma]

It takes quite a bit of processing, however. The last movie I imported took a total of eight hours, seven with the processor at full-tilt.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if you are throttling on your disk. Next time you rip a disk, take a look at all your cores.I've got 8 cores on my box. If at least 4 of them aren't at 100%, whatever I'm doing is likely I/O bound, not CPU bound. I have a few scripts that I run to process data that will actually max out all 8 cores, but they are really scalable processes.

[BBB333]

Thanks.

I just have a dual core processor 2.7. from 2012.

Crunching a 30 GB movie into 4 GB takes some CPU power and I KNOW the CPU is at 100%.

My next box will have heftier capabilities.

Appreciate your thoughts.