[mythtv] Streaming over network

Chuck Wolber mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Sat Jan 11 10:15:30 EST 2003


> > Encoding is very CPU-intensive.  Decoding is not.
> > 
> 
> Granted. But is the encoding process suitably for parallelization or
> will it only utilize one CPU?

Given CPU affinity coming in the 2.6 kernel, you can choose which for a
given process. OSF used to have a "runon" command you could use from the
command line. I'm hoping the SMP toolkit will have something similar. That 
being said, I'd probably leave it up to the scheduler...

-Chuck


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