tovid-suite
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9 years ago From grepper@gmail.com on June 14, 2012 23:38:49
This could most easily be accomplished within the todisc script ('tovid disc') as this functions as a kind master script for the others in addition to its menu creation mandate. At present there exists an -encode-only option to todisc which will do just that. It could easily background encoding tasks for the supplied videos. Patches welcome :)
Labels: Type-Enhancement
From virtuale...@gmail.com on November 18, 2011 19:17:39
Although mpeg2enc and ffmpeg can do certain things in multiple threads, in reality they can only keep a single processor busy (with the video stream) and another -- partially busy (with the audio stream).
Systems with even two CPUs and especially the bigger ones with 4+ processors would be much better utilized if the multiple videos were instead converted in parallel. The sample conversion script would be:
tovid ............. & tovid ............. & ... up to the number of CPUs ... tovid ............. & wait
The above is imperfect -- different parts could finish much quicker, leading to underutilization -- but simple. A more efficient implementation could, for example, generate a makefile instead of a shell script and invoke make with the `-j' flag.
The number of CPUs can be determined automatically, but the user should be given an option to overwrite the value.
Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/tovid/issues/detail?id=156