On 1/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nathan Aubrey</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:nathan@paysonlinux.org">nathan@paysonlinux.org</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I archive an internet radio show in mp3 and keep it on my web site. I got a<br>new computer that is dual core and rocks for editing audio and video. I<br>started compressing all my wav files to mp3 and discovered that while
<br>extremely fast at encoding, it is only using one core of the processor and<br>never uses more than 50%.<br><br>Does anyone know a threaded mp3 encoder that I could use? Has anyone played<br>with this before?<br><br>nathan
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<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[...]</span></blockquote></div><br>I do not know the answer (sorry); <br>but <font style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);" size="1">just to caution against premature optimism,</font>
<br>I think some algorithms (data compression, etc.)<br>&quot;lend&quot; themselves to being sped up,<br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(by taking advantage of the use of parallel hardware)
</span><br>more than others.<br>I really don&#39;t have any clue whether that applies<br>in this case;&nbsp; but, it might.<br>-- <br>Mike Schwartz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Glendale&nbsp;&nbsp;AZ <br><a href="mailto:schwartz@acm.org">schwartz@acm.org</a>
<br><a href="mailto:Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com">Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com</a>