PMT - Parallel Multithreaded Encoder/Decoder

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@Simorq,
I think FitGirl has already answered your question. In addition, let me describe how PMT works.
PMT splits your input as blocksize you have specified. If your encoder doesn't support stdio, it makes temporary files and runs your encoder over it. It requires disk space for that. If your encoder supports stdio, then it uses memory for storing blocks. Basically the additional memory you need here is blocksize * threads + encoded size * threads. Same goes for non-stdio but it takes disk space and temp files then.
PMT can't work without extra memory for stdio as PMT itself supports stdio, and without using blocks, both stdio support for encoding+decoding is not possible. Also, even without stdio, running a lot of instances parallelly and writing to same output isn't possible. So either way it requires extra memory or temp files. As the program requires blocks, encoders/compressors that require full files(such as bpk or srep) won't work perfectly/won't work at all.

I think this answers and will answer to future questions regarding PMT.