Bug 75214

Summary:	# of CPUs used for encoding only applied on restart
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Chris Ricker <chris.ricker>
Component:	grip	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	rvokal
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Description Chris Ricker 2002-10-05 15:41:31 UTC

Grip has an option to specify the number of CPUs used for encoding (on the
Config -> MP3 -> Options screen; the field is labeled 'Number of CPUs to use')

Changes to this option are not applied until grip is exited and restarted

Comment 1 Chris Ricker 2002-10-05 15:52:50 UTC

Hmm, this *is* documented in the online help

file:///usr/share/gnome/help/grip/C/mp3config.html

This is confusing for users (or at least for me).  When I first ran grip, I
configured it, told it two CPUs, and happily starting ripping + encoding.  It
displayed one Rip progress meter and one MP3 (ie, encoding) progress meter.  I
assumed it was encoding using both CPUs, and just displaying a combined progress
output.

Later, I exited grip.  When I restarted grip, I discovered that it now displayed
one Rip progress meter and two MP3 (encoding) progress meters, and realized that
it had only been using one CPU the first time....

Perhaps this could be made more clear in the config screen by changing Config ->
MP3 -> Options

Number of CPUs to use

to 

Number of CPUs to use (applied on restart)

or something similar?

I'll change this to RFE, since at least the current non-intuitive behavior is
documented, for those who bother to read the docs ;-)

Comment 2 raph 2002-10-06 00:15:01 UTC

Other configuration settings besides #CPU's are affected. I didn't search
exhaustively, but did notice CDRom device. Note that the need to restart is not
documented.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-02-04 23:09:39 UTC

grip is no longer shipped in the development tree; as such, it is unlikely older
bugs will be fixed.