[vorbis-dev] Parallel encoding

[Mark Lee]

On 12 Feb 2001 18:47:48 +1100, Michael Smith wrote:
> At 07:11 AM 2/12/01 +0000, you wrote:
> >I'm afraid this e-mail is me being lazy. I'm interested in adapting the
> >encoder to farm out work to various machines on a network. I'm just
> >trying to find out if this is going to be trivial. I don't know how the
> >encoder works but from my very brief glance through the code it would
> >appear that a state is maintained 'vorbis_dsp_state' that's going to
> >make my distributed encoding more difficult. Is it worth me delving more
> >deeply, presumably this state can't be duplicated across all machines?
> >
> 
> It's not neccesarily impossible, but it IS very difficult. Jeff Squyres has
> been working on something to do this, I'm not sure of the current status.
> 
> For farming out encoding, you're generally much better off just passing a
> single file to each machine, and encode multiple files at once. This is
> simple to implement.

That's how I'm doing it currently. Thanks

> Michael

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