[mythtv] Streaming over network
Isaac Richards
mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Fri Jan 10 20:24:31 EST 2003
On Friday 10 January 2003 03:14 pm, Curtis Stanford wrote:
> Granted. But is the encoding process suitably for parallelization or
> will it only utilize one CPU?
You can't easily parallelize real-time encoding. (or do it at all, from what
I know). And since libavcodec is _not_ threadsafe, even multiple encodes
will only use one CPU.
However, with the new setup in CVS, for slower SMP machines where decoding
isn't as insignificant as it is with faster machines, encoding and decoding
run as separate processes, so it will use both CPUs in that situation.
Isaac
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