[Beowulf] encoding video cluster style.

[Guy Coates]

Joe Landman wrote:
> andrew holway wrote:
>> I have a friend who encodes huge amounts of video from DV to wmv. He
>> wants to speed up the process so I suggested that he might want to
>> parallelise.

Take a look at DVD::RIP; it allows you to do parallel video transcoding. It come
with a nice gui and a simple queuing system. It is actually a pretty good
introduction to clustered computing.

http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/

Cheers,

Guy

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