Handbrakecli not using all cpu power why?

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nomnomnom
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Handbrakecli not using all cpu power why?

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Please detail your question or problem in as much detail as possible:

I run my command like this:

/Applications/HandBrakeCli -i 'blah' -o 'blah' -e x264 -q 20 --x264-profile=high --h264-level="4.0"

But for some reason it won't run it with all the cpu power. It sometimes would just hover around 20% as shown in activity monitor in macOS

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Latest version of Handbrakecli, and macOS 10.12.5

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Re: Handbrakecli not using all cpu power why?

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Please copy and paste the output you see in Terminal.
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Re: Handbrakecli not using all cpu power why?

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Re: Handbrakecli not using all cpu power why?

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actually the problem seems to be that I am running that command in an applescript with

do shell script "command here"

and the cpu usage for this command is much lower than if I just ran it in Terminal. Why is that?
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Re: Handbrakecli not using all cpu power why?

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No idea. Further assistance will require that activity log. ;)
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