[mythtv] Streaming over network

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 10 January 2003 03:37 pm, 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.

Yeah -- 

http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/frame/research/mpeg/mpeg_encode.html

It's still a fairly serial process, though.

Isaac