Two drives, two separate instances of HB possible?

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sadcaper
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Two drives, two separate instances of HB possible?

Post by sadcaper »

I have two disc drives that I use for burning DVDs. My question is can I run two separate instances of HB so I can be burning two DVDs at once? Currently I have to alternate drives when the other drive is finished.

If this is possible it should save some time encoding large libraries!

Thanks!
RoverTX
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Re: Two drives, two separate instances of HB possible?

Post by RoverTX »

With the CLI it is, but you have to have a pretty fast computer, or one with a stupid amount of cores for it to make any difference. I have a 6 core 3.2 GHz Mac Pro tower and a i7 iMac. The only time its ever worth it to run more then one instance is when encoding Blu-Rays on the Mac Pro tower, and even then its not that much of an over all speed boost since one encode takes up a good bit more then half my cores on average anyway. Its even more pronounced with normal DVDs its just better to que things up and let them rip.
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