[FFmpeg-devel] Parallelizing MPEG encoding with MPI

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Andreas Simbuerger <simi at osaft.eu> wrote:
> Greetings everybody!
>
> I'm currently working on a programming exercise for my diploma at the
> University of Passau. We try to enhance MPEG encoding by introducing
> parallelism on GOP encoding with the MPI libraries.

Isn't MPI rather unnecessary for video encoding parallelism?  It is
rather easy to develop a model (see
http://akuvian.org/src/x264/sliceless_threads.txt) which does not
require communication between threads except to signal the maximum
motion vector search range, which can be done using an atomic write to
a struct variable.

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