[MEncoder-users] can mencoder use clusters / distributed computing

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 25 January 2007 at 10:39, scostas wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski escribió:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> >>I have a few computers in my house and was wondering if mencoder could be
> >>ran on multiple machines to encode a dvd.
> 
> >Short answer: no.
> 
> And what about multicore processors? Can Mencoder use multiple processes 
> to get profit from them?

There is *some* support for multi-threaded encoding. Check the manpage for
threads options in various video codecs. AFAIK lavc, xvid and x264 support it.

Regards,
R.

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