[mythtv-users] Can mythtv benefit from the openMosix patch?
Jim Paris
jim at jtan.com
Sun Jul 6 15:15:46 EDT 2003
> Jim Paris wrote:
>
> >Sure, but OpenMosix would move that linear process to a faster
> >machine. That's how it works.
>
> I don't see your problem.
Not my problem, I wasn't the original poster. :)
> The computional intensive encoding happens in
> the backend, and that is separate from the frontend anyways, it can run
> on one of the fast servers (which then have to have a tv card, which
> they have to anyways - streaming unencoded video over the network won't
> be fun).
True, I forgot about the uncompressed video part. So even if
OpenMosix did support threads, it wouldn't help on anything short of
gigabit ethernet. Moving the TV card to the fast machine or going to
a hardware encoder is the way to go.
-jim
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