[MPlayer-users] Comment on menconder on multiprocessors.

[Jean-Marc Stévenne]

On Friday 24 January 2003 12:25, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 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

When encoding in 3 passes, does the third pass need to wait for the second 
passe to be terminated? 
If not one could imagine to start the third pass on the second processor while 
the first pass is still running.

jms