[mythtv] Streaming over network

[Curtis Stanford]

Thanks Isaac. Can someone explain what the new 0.8 features will be in 
relation to separating the frontend and backend functions? I'm trying to 
design my system with these new features in mind.

Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Friday 10 January 2003 03:14 pm, Curtis Stanford wrote:
> 
>>Granted. But is the encoding process suitably for parallelization or
>>will it only utilize one CPU?
> 
> 
> You can't easily parallelize real-time encoding.  (or do it at all, from what 
> I know).  And since libavcodec is _not_ threadsafe, even multiple encodes 
> will only use one CPU.  
> 
> However, with the new setup in CVS, for slower SMP machines where decoding 
> isn't as insignificant as it is with faster machines, encoding and decoding 
> run as separate processes, so it will use both CPUs in that situation.
> 
> Isaac
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