[MPlayer-users] distributed encoding
D Richard Felker III
dalias at aerifal.cx
Fri Feb 28 22:42:32 CET 2003
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:33:55PM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hello,
> what do yall think about this idea. i got about 5 computers (all kinda old
> ones...free hand me downs from friends) at my house. they are all on a
> network, running linux, yp, and nfs (/home is an nfs share). would it be
> feasable for one computer to rip a .vob to the nfs share then have all 5
> computers encode 1/5 of it, then combine all 5 parts into a single divx?
> would that work? pros? cons?
Pros: Speed.
Cons: Splicing files doesn't always work well and can lead to slight
a/v desync. Network bw used would be rather large. 2pass bitrate
distribution couldn't be done automatically between files. etc.
In general, what you want to do is just a bad idea. If you have 5 fast
computers, then rip 5 DVDs at once. It's much easier that way and you
don't have any of the cons.
Rich
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