Handbrake CPU Usage Q

[feriso]

I want to get Handbrake to only use one core of my e6400 during transcoding, I'm 'that' bothered that it'll take longer. In the options there is a drop down box to select number of cores but that seems to have no effect.

Is there another way of doing it?

 

[tres]

Task Manager, right click on the process, set processor affinity to just use a specific core?

 

[Aod]

handbrake doesn't use multi-threaded codecs (which aren't open source, and thus, expensive) meaning that it can only use more than one core if you're encoding more than one item of media