[FFmpeg-devel] mutlithreading in ffmpeg?

[Baptiste Coudurier]

On 03/17/2011 01:24 PM, Frank Barchard wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Lars Täuber <lars.taeuber at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> am I allowed to ask about multithreading support in ffmpeg?
>>
>> I was not subscribed to the list for a long time and have not followed the
>> discussion.
>>
>> Will you integrate multithreading in ffmpeg? The way libav is doing it?
>>
> 
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Lars Täuber <lars.taeuber at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> am I allowed to ask about multithreading support in ffmpeg?
>>
> 
> no, not really.  On this list, you're supposed to phrase your questions by
> supplying a patch.
> ffmpeg-user is the list for questions.

Well, let's try to relax these things a bit :)

> I was not subscribed to the list for a long time and have not followed the
>> discussion.
>>
>> Will you integrate multithreading in ffmpeg? The way libav is doing it?
>>
> 
> There is ffmpeg-mt for frame level multithreaded decoding.
> http://gitorious.org/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-mt
> It would be nice to see that integrated into mainline ffmpeg.
> Its quite effective, scales nicely to whatever number of cores you've got
> and not sensitive to what to tool was used to create the content.

It will be integrated soon.

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