multiprocessor support during encoding

[Selur]

Is there a linux encoding tool out there that really supports multiprocessor machines (thinking about a machine with 8 p4 3ghz cpus)?

Cu Selur

Ps.: tool should support xvid, h264 or the ffmpeg codecs

[mikeX]

I don't know about multiprocessor, but transcode has a 'cluster' mode (haven't tried it yet) which supposedly balances load between multiple machines on a network!

About XviD: from what I've read over at the xvid.org forums, there is no substancial gain in encoding speed on multiprocessor machines (at some cases encodes go slower, e.g. only one cpu gets used on a dual cpu system, there is a similar thread over here at the xvid forum concerning hyper-threading machines)

[Selur]

thx, I'll read the post over at xvid.org ;)