Squeeze 5 now has the ability to utilize your computer's multiple core processing power. You can now simultaneously encode up to 1.5 files on each of the computer's cores. Produced by Coby Rich, Product Marketing Manager, Sorenson Squeeze.
To make sure your computer is capable of processing multiple files, open up the Preferences Menu from the Squeeze pull-down menu, or it's the Edit Menu on the PC. Click on the Behavior tab on the right. Squeeze automatically detects how many processing cores you have on this computer, in this case it's two. And as a default it sets the maximum simultaneous compressions to the maximum--which was 1.5 per core--so the maximum is three, but you can change this if you wish to, we'll keep it back at three. Then click OK.
Now, we have the ability to simultaneously encode three files at the same time. So I'll take a couple of different files, open them up. I'll apply my preset, and now all I have to do is click "Squeeze It" and watch Squeeze go to work.
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