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...r. Here's what I have been doing since... Someone (I can't remember who offhand -- might have been Greg) mentioned using threads instead of MPI for parallelism on the argument that more people have SMPs than who have (and know how to use) an MPI implementation. Good point. It was fairly striaghtforward to write a multi-threaded encoder, but I found out the hard way that libvorbis.a is not thread safe. :-( Monty tells me that it is on the to-do list, but not currently at the top. Hence, someday a plain-vanilla multi-threaded encoder will be possible. But not today. Bummer. But it got me thi...