Re: [transcode-devel] beowulf cluster

2007-08-25 Thread Christian Marillat
David Liontooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to use transcode in cluster mode on a beowulf cluster? > Does anyone here have experience with this? Why to not use dvdrip and the cluster mode ? I'm encoding a 1:40 movie in 33 minutes (xvid 2pass, no fast resize and big frame 768x416

Re: [transcode-devel] beowulf cluster

2007-08-21 Thread Francesco Romani
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 19:28 +0100, Martin Guy wrote: > I used xvid, and found a bug because it was outputting N-1 frames per > block, so the picture very gradually got ahead of the sound, up to > about 2.5 seconds by the end of the 60th block. That has been fixed in > the 1.0.4rc5 and in the 1.1 CV

Re: [transcode-devel] beowulf cluster

2007-08-21 Thread Martin Guy
2007/8/21, David Liontooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What was the effect when you ran transcode in cluster mode on nodes of > different speeds and loads? My "distribute" program keeps one process active on each one. 100%cpu load on each. The only exception is at the end of the first pass and the end

Re: [transcode-devel] beowulf cluster

2007-08-21 Thread David Liontooth
Hi Martin -- Martin Guy wrote: 2007/8/21, David Liontooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is it possible to use transcode in cluster mode on a beowulf cluster? Does anyone here have experience with this? Yes it is, I did this the other week. All right, I lucked out! There are two mechanism

Re: [transcode-devel] beowulf cluster

2007-08-21 Thread Martin Guy
2007/8/21, David Liontooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is it possible to use transcode in cluster mode on a beowulf cluster? > Does anyone here have experience with this? Yes it is, I did this the other week. There are two mechanisms supported: PVM and -W ("cluster mode"). There are two documents in

[transcode-devel] beowulf cluster

2007-08-20 Thread David Liontooth
Is it possible to use transcode in cluster mode on a beowulf cluster? Does anyone here have experience with this? BTW is anyone updating the wiki? http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode?Transcode_Wiki shows only the April 15, 2007 release. David