Re: Re: Divx encoding - computationally intensive

[Stuart Poulton <stuart.poulton@xxxxxxx>]

Mark,

> Thanks - I'd forgotten all about beowulf. I even know a couple of
> people capable of setting it up for me :-)

You don't need beowulf, just a cluster. No need for high speed,
low-latency interconnect as each "job" is independent of the
other.

> Having thought about this overnight, the multiple-VOB nature of most
> DVDs means that some semi-automated (shell-script-level) distributing
> over a cluster, one PC per VOB might parallelise things a bit.

Yep that should work.

Anyone fancy a bulk buy on Shuttle xPC's ?

Cheers

Stuart