[MPlayer-users] Multiple threads

[Austin Gonyou]

> Yes, a cluster is tipically not for this purpose. Instead, it's for
> purposes, when the work can be devided into several parts which require
> quite few communication between nodes ... I think playing a movie is not
> in this category :) 

Playing a movie is not, but mencoder could benefit greatly from this!

> However it would be very funny to use a large cluster
> just for playing movies when the required machine to play an average movie
> is not too high nowdays. Encoding movies is another question, but I don't
> have enough experience to write opinion about it (ie: can you devide
> the encoding process into several quite separated chunks eg in time through
> the flow of the movie)

There are already MP3/OGG encoders which run on Mosix/MPI/LAM, etc, but
I don't know how mencoder would work. I can give my opinion, but I can't
say that any *data* intensive activity is something Mosix is ready for.
:(


> - Gábor (larta'H)
> 
> _______________________________________________
> RTFM!!!  http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/DOCS
> Search:  http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch
> http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users