kvaShare

Distributed encoding framework for kvazaar.

With this one can distribute the encoding of a video to several computers to speedup the process massively.

When cloning the repository, make sure that you use --recursive to include the submodule.

Usage

Master

With -help the program prints out all the commands that can be used in the master program.

Mandatory options:

-i <input_file> -o <output_file> -ip <slaves' IPs> -r <ratios>

For example:

"KvaShare.exe -i input.yuv -o test.265 -ip 127.0.0.1 -r 1"

Slave

There is no mandatory options for slave program, so if default port is used, one can just start the executable.

Building

• Open kvazaar solution (.sln) under kvazaar/build.
• Select Release and x64 for target.
• Right click kvazaar_lib and select properties.
  • Under General change Configuration Type to "Dynamic Library (.dll)".
    • Also make sure that the Platform Toolset and Windows SDK Version are the ones that you are using.
  • Under C/C++ -> Preprocessor add "PIC" into the Preprocessor Definitions.
• Right click the kvazaar_lib and select "build".
• When a build is complete, there should be kvazaar_lib.dll and kvazaar_lib.lib in the kvazaar/build/x64-Release-libs.
• At this point one can build both Master and Slave programs of kvaShare.
• To get the executables to work one must copy the kvazaar_lib.dll into the same folder as the executable.