[MEncoder-users] Second CPU not used

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 17 January 2005 at 09:43, David Liontooth wrote:
> On a dual opteron machine, mencoder only uses one of the CPUs.
> I'm hitting 99.9% usage -- is there a way to use both?
> 
> I notice it when using xvid -- if I use lavc, the CPU usage is much
> lower, and I can't tell whether it's using both CPUs or not. In a
> recent changelog I see multithreading is enabled for -lavc -- does
> that mean it's using both CPUs?

Not by default, but you can enable multi-threaded encoding with some
ME penalty with the threads option. See man mplayer.

R.

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