SMP Support?

Stirling Westrup swestrup at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 13:16:45 PST 2012


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Matthias Kattanek <mattes at mykmk.com> wrote:
>> I am currently writing a very CPU-intensive gstreamer app that handles
>> 4K video which get post-processed into multiple video output streams.
>> During profiling it appears that very limited use is being made of the
>> multiple processors in my server. I would love to be able to have my
>> output stream tasks distributed among the CPU’s on the server. Is
>> there currently any way to do something like that?
>
> You probably do some video de/encoding.
> Many codecs are only single threaded.
> You might want to look at X264, this codec handles multiple cpus
>
>   gst-inspect x264enc

I video decoding but the encoding is done outside of my application,
so x264enc doesn't help, and there doesn't seem to be an x264dec, but
that doesn't really surprise me.






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