[mythtv] Streaming over network

[Brian Foddy]

I'm just getting aquainted with Mythtv, and I did a little
playing around before I got here.

>From what I saw however, Streamer seems to do a pretty good
job of using multiple encoder threads on a SMP machine.
You specify how many threads as an argument of the call.
Its limited to a single machine, not distributed network.

Brian


On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Shawn Pearce wrote:

> Isaac Richards <ijr@po.cwru.edu> wrote:
> > 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.  
> 
> I've seen that a Berkely research project did a parallel MPEG
> encoder running over Ethernet.  The biggest problem was getting the
> raw image frames transferred to the processing nodes.
> 
>