[MEncoder-users] Second CPU not used

[David Liontooth]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

>On Monday, 17 January 2005 at 09:43, David Liontooth wrote:
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>>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?
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>>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?
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>Not by default, but you can enable multi-threaded encoding with some
>ME penalty with the threads option. See man mplayer.
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What's ME? Thank you for the suggestion; I'll give that a try.

Dave