[mythtv-users] Way OT, but a quick question about mencoder

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:36:01 -0700
Brian Wood wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Robin Hill wrote:
> 
> > On Mon Mar 20, 2006 at 02:26:21PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone know if mencoder is capable of multi-threading. The system is
> >> capable of it (SMP kernel, proper libs etc) ??
> >>
> > A quick search suggests that only encoding using libavcodec (lavc) is
> > multi-threaded.  Neither ffmpeg or xvid are currently multi-threaded
> > (though there has been some work on modifying xvid to utilise multiple
> > threads so this in on the way).
> 
> Well I selected "Divx 4/5 (lavc)" in Konverter. Plus, if I try and  
> run two jobs at the same time they both seem to get assigned to the  
> same CPU :-(
> 
> I'm brand new to the SMP world so I guess I have some studying up to  
> do. This being pretty OT I'll find a better forum for "studying" the  
> matter.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer.

Don't get me wrong, i think this is an interesting topic and is in fact
on topic. But you may get more traction on one of the mplayer lists. I
am subbed to mplayer-users and there is quite a lot of tech knowledge of
the inner workings of mplayer/mencoder


-- 
Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz>