On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Andrew Stevens wrote: > Hi all, > > First off a bit of background to the multi-threading in the current stable > branch. First off: > > - Parallelism is primarily frame-by-frame. This means that the final phases > of the encoding lock on completion of the reference frame (prediction and DCT
If one were using closed and fixed length GOPs would it make sense to parallelize the encoding of complete GOPs? Each cpu could be dispatched a set of N frames that comprise a closed GOP and a master thread could write the GOPs out in the correct order. But as Andrew mentioned - but the time filters and other processing is added in a dual cpu system's pretty well saturated. Quad cpu systems are very much a niche (and expensive) item (not to mention the noise they make;)) Cheers, Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users