[MPlayer-users] Comment on menconder on multiprocessors.

[Martin Collins]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:05:54 +0100
Jean-Marc Stévenne <jms at be.itmasters.com> wrote:

> When encoding in 3 passes, does the third pass need to wait for the
> second passe to be terminated? 
> If not one could imagine to start the third pass on the second
> processor while the first pass is still running.

I tried this once. I backgrounded vpass=1, waited a few seconds then
started vpass=2. It didn't work but it would be useful if it could be
made to.

Martin