[FFmpeg-devel] Regression: r20954-5 broke threads auto in libx264

[Baptiste Coudurier]

On 01/20/2010 01:13 PM, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> -threads 0 now no longer works to specify auto threads in libx264.  We
> have received a ton of complaints from users already about ffmpeg
> performance going down massively in the past few weeks.
>
> This is a serious regression.
>
> If nobody can come up with a reasonable fix for this in the next day
> or two, I will disconnect the threads option in libx264.c, forcing it
> to auto in all cases.

I very strongly object to using auto in all cases.

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