So slicing frames is not an option.
More on sending frame by frame?? any articles or resources to read?
@Burkhard what did you mean by working scene based. i dint understand?
Thank You,
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Burkhard Plaum
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 15.02.2011 10:07, schrieb Vishnu Viswanath:
> > Hi,
> > Myself and some of my friends are working on a project to play a video
> using a cluster, in effect parallel
> > rendering. We would like to add a filter to the video and demonstrate
> the rendering process.
> > We read in your blog about parallel routines implementation. But we are
> actually very stuck with this project.
> > The idea which we got until now is that we need to slice up the video
> frames and distribute it into the
> > cluster nodes to process. Processing includes adding the filter,
> essentially.
>
> I'm pretty sure that this isn't a good idea. Slicing the video frame makes
> sense on multi-core
> machines (which share the same address space), but not for multiple
> machines. Passing slices
> to the nodes will probably take more time, than you gain by parallelizing.
>
> All approaches I know for render farms are frame-based, that means you pass
> single frames
> to the nodes. Now if you have a filter, which uses data from previous
> frames, you cannot even do that
> and must work scene based.
>
> > Can we get some guidance regarding developing an app built on top of
> gmerlin API for this. We are going through
> > the code of 'cmdlineplayer' to understand the API. Is there some other
> way to study the API and are we in the
> > right direction?
> >
> > Thanking you in advance
> >
> > --
> > Vishnu Viswanath
> > Computer Science & Engineering 2007-2011
> > Model Engineering College, Cochin
> > India
>
> Cool, been in Cochin in 2007
>
> Burkhard
>
>
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