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#124 Multi-Threading
The title says it all. It takes a very long time to create dvd's when only one thread is used, because the encoding process is where most of the time takes place... I know that there is two approaches to the encoding process...
1) one thread per video file (simple)
2) multiple threads working on same file (a little bit more tedious) (look at the threads parameter used by mencoder for ideas on this)
DVDStyler supports multi threads (and multi-core processors) since version 1.7.3
I'm using DVDStyler, and even with thread count at 8, it still only uses one core to transcode the videos... perhaps that is because the mpeg2 encoder doesn't support multi-threading? Anyway, a better idea than multi-threading would be to allow for multiple simultaneous transcodes, as mentioned above. With four cores, I should be able to transcode four videos at once... wouldn't that be neat?