[MPlayer-dev-eng] Using mencoder for distributed incoding

[Attila Kinali]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:32:09AM +0200, Antoine Duchâteau wrote:
> we integrated mplayer with Xgrid this weekend to provide us with a 
> blazing fast Xserve G5 encoding farm.

May i tell you that you are either sick or have too much money :)

> We first tried to use -ss and -endpos to delimit encoded parts on each 
> node of the cluster.
> Unfortunately, -ss was not precise enough on vob files and we had a 3 
> s. overlap at split positions.
> In order to work around the problem, we added two options to mencoder:
> 
> -fromclosestkeyframe and -untilclosestkeyframe
> 
> They convert the provided seek time to a number of fields and skip the 
> frames until the correct number of fields is met and a key frame is 
> reached.
> 
> I was wondering if the feature interested someone else.

Sure, read DOCS/tech/patches.txt and send a patch.
If it looks nice we may include it.

		Attila Kinali