Ligos MPEG encoder SLOWER on 2+ CPUs

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Got a response from Ligos regarding support for dual CPUs, and I was a bit amazed to hear that the plug-ins or GoMotion programs might actually run slower on dual CPU systems. It looks the standalone program might be faster, but using Adobe Premiere plug-in with dual CPU doesn't help!?

The actual response: "The new standalone Encoder 3.5 supports it but that's it. None of the GoMotion products support it since the algorithm is actually slower on a dual or multi-processor system. I don't know the technical details but we tested it both ways and the found the best performance came from a single processor (something to do with additional time required to address additional processors)."

Can someone verify this that has a plugin?

-- Bill Katz (WTKatz@yahoo.com), May 15, 2001


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