[mythtv-users] Hardware encoding ffmpeg/mytharchive dule core

[John Drescher]

On 9/1/06, Ben Edwards (lists) <lists at videonetwork.org> wrote:
> Was thinking of upgrading my CPU due to the time it was taking to
> re-encode in mytharchive.  Had a thought, is it possible to put a
> hardware mpeg encoding board in and getting mytharchive/ffmpeg to use
> it.  Has anyone don't this, douse it work, which what hardware.
>
> Also would ffmpeg fully utilise a dual core CPU or would it only use one
> core?
>

I have a dual processor opteron system and from what I have seen none
of the mytharchive steps make use of a second core or second
processor...

John