[Beowulf] encoding video cluster style.

[Joe Landman]

andrew holway wrote:
> I have a friend who encodes huge amounts of video from DV to wmv. He
> wants to speed up the process so I suggested that he might want to
> parallelise.
> 
> Is there anyone that can dig me out of this hole as suggest how I
> might go about doing this. there are open source codes, libavcodec
> that could maybe be parallelised .
> Possible?

I would think a coarse grain parallelization is what is indicated.  This 
is to a degree, how rendering is done.  Some number of frames at a time 
distributed to some number of nodes.

Basically have converters running on N nodes, each getting start/stop 
frame indexes. From there, each does the conversion.  A final process 
stitches the frames together.

> 
> Ta
> 
> Andy
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