[FFmpeg-user] Performance tuning FFMPEG under VMware

[Forrest Aldrich]

We have been running FFMPEG on real-iron hardware for a while; we're now 
trying it under VMware VMs.  I've noticed a performance degradation -- 
which I partially expected.

There are lots of folks out there running FFMPEG like this, in large 
transcoding farms (Yahoo/Google?) so I'm hoping for some really useful 
information.

If you have 2 cores and a max CPU speed of 3ghz, the speed is divided 
between the two cores.  So, does that make two cores more efficient than 
one, at full speed?


Thank you in advance...


Forrest