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Submission + - Which open source video apps use SMP effectively?

Submitted by ydrol on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @06:33AM

ydrol writes: After building my new Core 2 Quad Q6600 pc, I was readly to unleash video conversion activity the likes of which I had never seen before. However I was disappointed to see a lot of the conversion tools either dont use SMP at all, or do not balance the workload evenly across processors, or require ugly hacks to use SMP (eg invoking distributed encoding options). I get the impression that Open Source projects are a bit slow on the uptake here? Which Open Source video conversion apps take full native advantage of SMP?

And before you ask, no I dont want to pick up the code and add SMP support myself, thanks.

Submission + - Going Beyond Paper Based Training Material

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ydrol

on Wednesday October 25, 2006 @03:57PM

ydrol writes: "Training Companies (and training departments) seem to take great delight in handing over a pile of folders full of paper based traning materials at the end of a course. Presumably they dont want students stealing electronic copies of their work and traning others, as it is a lucrative source of revenue. The downside is, that it is often impracticle to refer to these traning notes after the course is over. Does anyone have any ideas — both for students (short of using psexec to grab the electronic notes from the teachers laptop ) , and for traning companies themselves on how we can improve the situation?"

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