<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Hi. I'm interested in knowing if it's possible to use openMosix, DistrIT, or something like that, to distribute or parallelize Mencoder? I understand that this isn't an incredibly easy thing to ask for, especially when someone is working with a task like mencoder, but is there a way to split up the individual tasks, like having one machine work on audio, one machine on video resizing/filters, one machine on compression, anything like that?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Also, would it be possible to have this work in an environment of mixed systems/archetectures? I'm running Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X machines on my LAN, and with lots of idle CPU power sitting around, I figure I might try and distribute the load.</DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><U><I>Duct Tape Tip No. 23:</I></U></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><I><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN>Tape furnace ductwork*</I></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica"><I>*We have never actually tried this one, and have no idea if it works. Therefore, we can only suggest this use, not actually recomend it.</I></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN></SPAN>--<I>The Duct Tape Book</I> by Jim and Tim</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>