[mythtv-users] Way OT, but a quick question about mencoder

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 20, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Nick Rout wrote:

>
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:36:01 -0700
> Brian Wood wrote:
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>> On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Robin Hill wrote:
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>>> On Mon Mar 20, 2006 at 02:26:21PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone know if mencoder is capable of multi-threading. The  
>>>> system is
>>>> capable of it (SMP kernel, proper libs etc) ??
>>>>
>>> A quick search suggests that only encoding using libavcodec  
>>> (lavc) is
>>> multi-threaded.  Neither ffmpeg or xvid are currently multi-threaded
>>> (though there has been some work on modifying xvid to utilise  
>>> multiple
>>> threads so this in on the way).
>>
>> Well I selected "Divx 4/5 (lavc)" in Konverter. Plus, if I try and
>> run two jobs at the same time they both seem to get assigned to the
>> same CPU :-(
>>
>> I'm brand new to the SMP world so I guess I have some studying up to
>> do. This being pretty OT I'll find a better forum for "studying" the
>> matter.
>>
>> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> Don't get me wrong, i think this is an interesting topic and is in  
> fact
> on topic. But you may get more traction on one of the mplayer lists. I
> am subbed to mplayer-users and there is quite a lot of tech  
> knowledge of
> the inner workings of mplayer/mencoder
>
>

Transcoding probably is more or less topical here, but what I need at  
this point is more general info about SMP and multi-threading, which  
is OT on this list.

I may lurk on mplayer-users though, thanks for the tip.