[MPlayer-users] Comment on menconder on multiprocessors.

[Arpi]

Hi,

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> mencoder nor mplayer balances the CPU usage very well, is the written 
> in a way that one task wait for the other?

yes. it's optimized for single cpu systems.
and we don't even plan to change this.
for player: no sense, duap cpu desktops are rare, and even then one cpu is
  more than enough for playback
for encoder: impossible to paralellize encoding, unless you encode 2
  different streams but then run 2 mencoder instances


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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