Re: New distro.

2019-07-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 02:47:35PM +0200, Peter Corlett wrote: > It's debatable whether a single ffmpeg instance could take advantage of that > many cores since Amdahl's Law will kick in as it tries to co-ordinate > everything. Split it into multiple four- or eight-thread encodes and run them >

Re: New distro.

2019-07-02 Thread Peter Corlett
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 11:38:12AM +0100, RS wrote: > [...] Does ffmpeg require more than 64 logical processors? Obviously not, since it works fine on machines with as few as one. Indeed, ffmpeg defaults to using just one unless you pass the "-threads" option. It's debatable whether a single

Re: New distro.

2019-07-02 Thread RS
On 01/07/2019 20:19, Peter S Kirk wrote: > On 30 Jun 2019 at 19:50, I wrote: >> On 24/06/2019 18:12, Vangelis forthnet wrote: >>> mainly because third party library libx265 (video encoder) >>> has been configured with NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) support, >>> a feature absent under Vista+XP: