[MEncoder-users] Batching mencoder

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:28:53PM -0600, Troy Perkins wrote:
> Is it safe to say you can run 2 instances of mencoder on dual core?
> 
> Thanks Rich.

Please don't top-post and use this annoying style of quoting. But with
that said, yes, 2 instances on dual core will finish the job faster
than just running 1 instance at a time in series, but maybe not quite
twice as fast..? Not sure about that.

Rich

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> [mailto:mencoder-users-bounces at mplayerhq.hu] On Behalf Of Rich Felker
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> Subject: Re: [MEncoder-users] Batching mencoder
> 
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:19:19PM -0600, Troy Perkins wrote:
> > Is it more efficient to batch mencoder in series or parallel?
> 
> Series of course unless you have multiple cpus. Optimal is one
> instance per cpu, always.
> 
> Rich
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