[x264-devel] Real Time encoding

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Denio Mariz <deniomariz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to capture video from a source (IP stream or TV capture),
> encode it to H.264 save into a file. However, I would like to do this
> in *real time*, that is, the time it should take to encode must be
> very short.
> I am trying to evaluate how to do this by software using x264. Of
> course, it depends on the video atributes from the source and on the
> hardware available to run the x264.
>
> Assuming that the video source have always the same attributes, the
> problem is to dimension the required CPU (processing power and number
> of CPUs) in order to get to get the task done in real time. Am I
> correct?
>
> I have N processors (CPU cores) available, is it possible to
> distribute (parallelize) the processing of one video over those N
> processors? If yes, could somenoe give an example of how this could be
> done, for example, using x264 command for an input file?

x264 uses threads by default.

Jason