[MPlayer-users] Single threaded mencoder on a Dual Core machine

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:56:04PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:03:35AM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote:
> > will give you 2x performance on a dual core machine. The only way to do 
> > that is to have two encoders working on separate files -- each file 
> > takes just as long as before, but you can encode twice as many.
> 
> Although difficult, this means it is also possible to split a file up,
> encode it and then concatenate it again. No idea if anyone got this to

This defeats the whole purpose of 2pass quality optimization.

Rich