# Handbrake is using 100% of my CPU
**URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/handbrake-is-using-100-of-my-cpu/3942
**Category:** Commercial Removal
**Created:** [October 15, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/handbrake-is-using-100-of-my-cpu/3942 "2020-10-15T17:09:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Unpredictable](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Unpredictable)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/handbrake-is-using-100-of-my-cpu/3942/1 "2020-10-15T17:09:50Z")
I recently purchased the premium version of MCEBuddy. It seems to do a good job of cutting the commercials from the videos I record using PlayOn.
The problem is HandbrakeCLI.exe is using 100% on and off.
I am using version 2.5.4.1
My computer stats are
Windows 10
Intel i5-9400F CPU@2.90GHz 6 core
8GB Ram
Windows version 2004
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1660
I have 3 drives a Sata drive with windows on it 110GB
The second drive is 930GB drive
I also have a Seagate Backdrive that is 8TB
Thank you for any help.
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/handbrake-is-using-100-of-my-cpu/3942/2 "2020-10-18T17:34:21Z")
How much CPU is used depends on many different factors. For example, if your profile is using hardware encoding with a supported hardware encoder (you logs will tell you that), the core conversion may be handled by the GPU. However if your profile is asking for tasks like say decoming or deinterlacing which you GPU man not support, then it falls back to the CPU for that. Then there are other tasks, like metadata processing, remuxing, commercial removal etc which are purely CPU intensive tasks. GPU’s for the most take off the bulk of encoding processing from the CPU but there may still be things the CPU needs to do which the GPU does not depending on the profile and hardware.
For the rest of the CPU work you can still limit how much CPU MCEBuddy uses using the tools as explained in this post so it doesn’t impact the responsiveness or resources available for other tasks in your computer:
> [@Limiting CPU Utilization](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/limiting-cpu-utilization/3690/2):
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> You can adjust the CPU utilization in two ways: Priority on the main page Limit the number of cores/processors it can use in the System Settings page If you rest your mouse on any option it will provide you with instant pop up help.
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### Author:  [@Ronstang](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Ronstang)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/handbrake-is-using-100-of-my-cpu/3942/3 "2020-10-28T02:36:07Z")
I’m having the same problem all of a sudden. I have changed nothing except I ran and MKV H.265 conversion earlier and my GPU didn’t support H.265 so it ran an all software encode with handbrake using all my available CPU pushing utilization to 100%.
I went out after dinner and bought an new video card. Now HEVC conversions are super fast but CPU utilization are still 100% so I and running one now using MKV Normal Quality as I always have and now my CPU utilization is still 100% where it used to be about 65% running the same encoding profile.
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### Author:  [@Ronstang](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Ronstang)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2020, 5:40am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/handbrake-is-using-100-of-my-cpu/3942/4 "2020-10-28T05:40:18Z")
I solved the problem, I went into the config folder and edited the profiles file to change the order of encoders and put ffmpeg first…now my CPU utilization is down to 50% with the same encoding times.