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.
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.