[mythtv] mythmusic - encoding while ripping

[Lonnie Hutchinson]

Here is a patch that modifies mythmusic to interleave the ripping and
encoding. See the email below for a more detailed description of the
benefits.

Please consider for inclusion in CVS. The patch is against current CVS.

Lonnie

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 07:02, Lonnie Hutchinson wrote:
> I am working on a patch to mythmusic to do the encoding at the same time
> as ripping, rather than ripping to a temporary file, then encoding to
> the final file. I have yet to think of any drawbacks, so if there are
> any please bring them to my attention. The benefits to this are listed
> below.
> 
> As it is now, ripping a track takes very little CPU, but the encoding
> pegs the CPU. By interleaving ripping and encoding the CPU cycles for
> encoding can be spread out over the time it takes to rip the track,
> which may help alleviate the pegging of the CPU. If the encoder that is
> being used takes as long or longer than the time to rip the CPU will
> still be pegged.
> 
> Another advantage is there is no need for temporary space since there is
> no temporary file.
> 
> I don't have any metrics on whether or not it is faster, that isn't my
> main goal. I just want ripping/encoding to be as friendly to the system
> as possible in case a recording is being done at the same time. That
> said, it "feels" faster.
> 
> Lonnie Hutchinson
> 
> 
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