[MPlayer-users] mencoder "cluster"?

[Hans-Carl Oberdalhoff]

Re,

> It certainly would be possible to divide up a source video into multiple
> pieces; transfer each to a different machine; encode using identical
> settings; then re-joining the output pieces.

Another simple way of creating a small amount of parallelism, is by
separately converting the audio-stream. This can of course be combined
with the divided-video-trick.

Shell 1:
mencoder -ovc lavc -oac copy

Shell 2:
mkfifo audiodump.wav
mplayer -ao pcm -vo null -vc null

Shell 3:
oggenc audiodump.wav


hco