[mythtv] Streaming over network

[Brian Grossman]

> > 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.

But it occasionally inserts a non-differential frame, which could be
used to separate data for parallel encoding.

Brian