I've tried transcoding live content with VLC 1.1.3 and it has extremely high CPU usage (45-60% CPU) compared to VLC 1.0.5 (15-20% CPU)
Both VLC are running with default preferences, vlc is started with telnet interface enabled:
vlc.exe -I dummy --intf="http" --http-host="127.0.0.1:8603" --extraintf="telnet" --telnet-port="8703" --telnet-password="xxx"
I'm trying transcode the same content, the same PC with CPU AMD Athlon II X4 630 running at 3Gz , Windows XP.
My transcoding line is as follows:
#transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{vbv-maxrate=128,vbv-minrate=128,qcomp=0,ratetol=0.1,keyint=20}vb=128,width=320,height=240,me=umh,acodec=mp4a,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100,audio-sync}