I'd like to use my 7 computers ocassionally to encode video, from DVD to SVCD or XviD. It would be so much faster if ClusterKnoppix could distribute a single DVD job over 7 computers and get the job several times faster. I've seen one video encoding package for Linux, DVD::Rip, but it seems complex to setup to run on multiple machines and it requires installing client side software to work.

Can anyone help me find some good video encoding package that will easily spread on a ClusterKnoppix network? If it helps to have one HD-installed machine for starting things up, fine.