[FFmpeg-user] x264 thread option

Frank Häfemeier ffmpeg at frank.haefemeier.eu
Tue Nov 20 02:23:05 CET 2012


Am Montag, den 19.11.2012, 17:10 -0800 schrieb Young Kim:
> On Monday, November 19, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Young Kim <shadowing71 <at> gmail.com (http://gmail.com)> writes:
> > 
> > > Does anyone know if threads is enabled for libx264 in the 
> > > latest version of ffmpeg?
> > > 
> > Only if you compiled FFmpeg (and libx264) with threads support.
> > 
> Thanks for the quick response! Is there an easy way to tell if I compiled it with threads support? Or better yet, how would I go about compiling it with threads support?
> 
After calling './configure' for x264 the output should print
	...
	thread:        posix
	...

For ffmpeg you can specify './configure --enable-pthreads' beside of
other needed parameter. The output should be print
	...
	threading support         pthreads
	...

Bye
	Frank



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