[mythtv] Streaming over network

Matt Zimmerman mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Fri Jan 10 20:31:14 EST 2003


On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:14:14PM -0700, Curtis Stanford wrote:

> Granted. But is the encoding process suitably for parallelization or 
> will it only utilize one CPU?

Modern video encoding works by calculating the differences between frames.
Thus, in order to do any work on frame N+1, frame N must already be encoded.
It is a serial process.

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 - mdz



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