[FFmpeg-devel] Load balancing problem with ffh264 deblock filter

[Goga777]

> 2008/9/11 Stefan Ellenberger <stefan_ell at hotmail.com>:
> [...]
> 
> > I do not understand why deblocking does not use several threads although the parameters I used do request it:
> >
> > "mplayer -cache 16000 -vfm ffmpeg -vc ffh264 -lavdopts threads=2 -framedrop -ao oss -vo xv hdsuisse_testrec.ts"
> >
> > I increased threads to 3 and 4 resulting in the same deadlock situation: one core at max, the second stays at 30%. The only way I found to get around this is to skip deblocking by using skiploopfilter=all and option "fast". Cpu load on both cores now varies at 70% leaving 30% to the max.
> 
> Firstly, this is the wrong mailing list. If you wish to submit a patch
> to improve the situation, great. If not then you should send items
> like this to the user mailing list.
> 
> Secondly, ffh264 is not yet multi-threaded. There is work ongoing to
> implement this.


afaik - ffh264 is not yet multi-threaded only for frame based video. For slice based video ffh264 supports multi-threading. I'm correct ?

Goga