On 09-Oct-98, Michael Cheng wrote:
>On 8 Oct 1998, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> Well, uh... When I mp3 stuff, I usually mp3 lots of stuff. So I see
>> no real need to have several CPUs work on the same track; I just make
>> each CPU work on a different track. At work I set up a 8 CPU "farm"
>> to mp3 during the night, which was, like, very nice.
>Yes but as a computer nerd, I'm interested in encoding as fast as possible
>:)
>Can you imagine the task split up over 20 processors, so that encoding
>takes only a few seconds? A beowulf cluster of encoders? ;) [not the
>same sort of parallelization though :)]
>Of course, if you have multiple files to encode, and you're not concerned
>with speed, then one encode per processor is probably the best way to go.
>later
>mike
I can see your point, but I "agree more" with Lars. Why not work on getting
Joint Stereo mp3 encoding to the Amiga. MP3 encoding as a whole is imho
useless without it......sounds horrible!
FedeErik
