[MPlayer-users] Comment on menconder on multiprocessors.
Arpi
arpi at thot.banki.hu
Fri Jan 24 17:02:56 CET 2003
Hi,
> > 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?
of course.
it's the main point of 3 passes: 3rd pass uses the statistics from 2nd pass.
> If not one could imagine to start the third pass on the second processor while
> the first pass is still running.
the only thing yo can do is making 2CD dvd rips in paralell on 2 cpu, cd1
encoding on cpu 1 and cd2 encoding on cpu 2.
A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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