[XviD-devel] Re: Two Encoders

[ChristianHJW]

"peter ross" <suxen_drol@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:F68iWEEREhKlIKQcFWq000164bf@hotmail.com...
| >From: Christoph Lampert <chl@math.uni-bonn.de>
| >I had a few bad ideas about SMP. What's your oppinion about this one?
| >
| >Instead of higher speed (which is difficult because of data
dependencies),
| >we could go for higher quality:
| this is also achievable with one cpu.
| infact, some older ms-mpeg4v3 (divx311) encoders functioned much
| like you described: each frame was encoded twice, using different
| versions of the codec, and the better (psnr,framesize,etc). frame is
| selected.
| if you want to expierement with smp (and i know you do gruel...), why
| not parallelize the bframes encoder? its should be easy.


In a normal encoding scenario the 2 CPUs can be used nicely with GKnot :

CPU1 :   xvid.dll ; virtualdub.dll

CPU 2 : avisynth.dll : resizing, filtering, etc.

On my SMP system i get 85 - 95% CPU load with normal GKnot


Christian