Why CPU is high utilitzation even with h/w encode and decode enabled

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takayo72
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Why CPU is high utilitzation even with h/w encode and decode enabled

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Description of problem or question:
I enabled nvidia for encoder and quick sync for decoder in option.
I found that cpu utilization is still 9X - 100%
intel iGPU is 5X % utilization
nvidia gpu (1070) is around 20% utilization

From utilization percentage, the gpu decoder and encoder is working.
But why the cpu is still high usage and gpu usage is pretty low


HandBrake version :

1.2.0


Operating system and version:
Win10 x64 build 1803
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s55
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Re: Why CPU is high utilitzation even with h/w encode and decode enabled

Post by s55 »

See the Performance Seciton: https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/1.2.0/tech ... o-vce.html


Even if you offload decode. a/v sync, filters, audio, subtitle processing, muxing etc all happen on the CPU.
Filters will be be biggest bottleneck.
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Re: Why CPU is high utilitzation even with h/w encode and decode enabled

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