[MPlayer-users] distributed encoding

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:33:55PM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> hello,
> what do yall think about this idea.  i got about 5 computers (all kinda old 
> ones...free hand me downs from friends) at my house.  they are all on a 
> network, running linux, yp, and nfs (/home is an nfs share).  would it be 
> feasable for one computer to rip a .vob to the nfs share then have all 5 
> computers encode 1/5 of it, then combine all 5 parts into a single divx?  
> would that work?  pros?  cons?

Pros: Speed.

Cons: Splicing files doesn't always work well and can lead to slight
a/v desync. Network bw used would be rather large. 2pass bitrate
distribution couldn't be done automatically between files. etc.

In general, what you want to do is just a bad idea. If you have 5 fast
computers, then rip 5 DVDs at once. It's much easier that way and you
don't have any of the cons.

Rich