[MPlayer-users] distributed encoding

[christopher j bottaro]

but i only have 1 dvd drive...=(  thanks for the info though...it was the 
splicing of the files that i figured would cause problems, aside from the av 
sync probs, there would prolly be little jumps at the splice points, huh?

-- christopher

On Friday 28 February 2003 03:42 pm, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> 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
>
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