Re: 6502 illegal opcodes questions

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <usKdnWPSDo9AChfZnZ2dnUVZ_vidnZ2d@comcast.com>,
 "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> Video transcoding is an "embarrassingly parallel" application, yet
> I have not found a single popular software manufacturer that makes
> a parallel transcoder.  With all the multicore chips now, they are
> leaving factors of performance on the table.
> 
> Apparently, the market for video encoders does not evaluate them
> on performance--astonishingly.  Some of the most popular perform
> terribly.

I take it by popular, you mean Windows only.  Apple's Final Cut Studio 
is multi-processor/core aware, including the video compression stuff.  
(PPC or Intel)  You can also set up the Compressor app to do clustering 
and use unused cycles from other computers, at least for rendering 
scenes.  Don't know offhand if it does it for compression, but it'll use 
multiple processors in the machine it's running on.

Maybe with Final Cut being popular amongst professionals doesn't count?

Greg B.

PS.  Apple has had multi-processor/core Macs available since August 2000 
so there is a lot of software on the Mac that will take advantage of 
such things.  Especially under OS X...

PPS.  It'd be nice if Quicktime would support multiple processors/cores, 
but it doesn't.  :-(

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