[x264-devel] Threading/parallel processing question

[tsuraan]

> Yes.  This is very, very, very not a new idea.

I would have been surprised if it were, but I couldn't find anything
about it anywhere.  Is there some commonly-used name for this
technique?

> It can also be done
> outside of libx264 -- that is, it's not a feature of the encoder, but
> rather a feature of the frontend.

Is the iframe discovery an easy thing to do, or does an encoder
typically just chop up the stream into arbitrary chunks and use them
for work units?