Distributed encoding possible in the future?

[Killah]

I've been backing up dvd's for a while now. But what I don't understand is why there isn't a real queuing system so that you can have different computers working on an encoding job. This would be really cool, because then I could us my "spare" computers to help with the encoding.
So my question is, will this be able in the future? Is this being considered??

[-h]

That's really something that belongs in the encoding program, not the codec itself. You could try contacting Avery Lee, but it could be quite a big project..

-h

[Doom9]

this has been discussed at least 10 times on this very board in realtion to various other programs.. and I'm pretty sure that in every single case the thread starter didn't fully comprehend the complexity of a distributed encoding project :/

[-h]

It wouldn't be hard to implement a network-aware batch system (if you had multiple movies to do), but yes breaking a single movie up for processing across a network is.. unlikely to ever happen, really.

-h

[Killah]

But is the the following possible :

- Encode 1st pass of the movie on "master" machine
- After the first pass the keyframes are known, so "markers" can be created where the movie can be safely split
- Each networked computer can decide which part of the movie it will encode, respecting the "markers"
- The master machine can see which parts are being encoded, and you can see the progress being made...

This should really be possible I think :D, what do you think?

[Nic]

I guess that could be possible(?)....

....But that has nothing to do with codec development, because that should be (can be) done with an external program.

-Nic

[Killah]

@Nic, you're completely right... But when I posted my first message, I was thinking at codec level, which was completely bogus!!!!