[MPlayer-users] distributed encoding

[Giles RC Morant]

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 21:33, 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?

transcode has built-in support for this sort of distributed encoding.

http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/html/cluster_guide.txt



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Giles RC Morant <giles.morant at dur.ac.uk>