[Ffmpeg-devel] Threading in libavcodec

Rich Felker dalias
Sun Jan 22 21:30:38 CET 2006


On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 06:41:11PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Peter <mpegavc at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > From what i"ve been able to find out it seems that the libavcodec
> > itself is unthreaded.  Is that correct?
> 
> Libavcodec can optionally be compiled to use multiple threads.  This
> improves encoding speed on multiprocessor machines.

And lowers quality.

Rich





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