Just for posterity's sake, I'll make a brief journal entry.
Trip to FL to Tracy's parents for about a week was good. It was warm. We did nothing, and lots of it. I did take my laptop and spend the better portion of a day in the warm sunshine working on parallel oggenc, though.
Came back up here to a few inches of snow -- it's nothing compared to what other parts of the country are currently experiencing, but it's very unusual for Louisville to have this much snow for so long!
The last two days have been almost nothing but parallel oggenc coding/debugging. I've been pretty active on the vorbis-dev list since I got back; much discussion has occurred. Monty tells me that he's got a branch where the thread-safe encoding stuff is partially done (whoo hoo!!!); can't wait for that to become mainstream.
I've gotten pretty far with poggenc, and it appears to almost be working. Things yet to do:
- Output ogg data appears to be getting hosed somewhere in the output queue. It varies from completely bad output to occasional "blips" in the output audio, but I think it's symptoms of the same problem.
- MPI stuff hasn't been written yet; it's all threaded right now.
- My stats displays will have to be re-thunk a bit. Right now, there's 3 separate displays (done that way on purpose; one for input, encoding, and output). But it might make it easier to have a single object for all three (rather than three objects) because I think I want to have an "oggenc compatibility mode" stats display where there's only one progress bar so that programs like grip can run poggenc without having to analyze a different progress bar.
- All the steam shutdown bookkeeping isn't written yet; I don't think there's much, but I'm concentrating on getting it working before I make all the memory cleanup at the end work properly.
The first item is the focus of my current work; it's been a bear to find some far -- I can't manage to track it down somehow. We'll see...
Heading out to a New Year's party later tonight which should be fun. I'll probably be up at ND later this week (not for sure yet, but likely).
Special shout out to my homie Suzanne -- happy birthday!