[FFmpeg-devel] slice or frame based multi-threading libavcodec

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 04:23:57PM +0000, bhagya wrote:
> hi everyone,
> 
> i am new to this group and have been looking at the ffmpeg libavcodec for h264
> decoding for the past 2 weeks.
> 
> i understand that both frame level and slice level multithreading are
> implemented. but i could not figure out who is deciding whether to go for frame
> level, slice level or both multithreading. basically it boils down to what value
> the variable avctx->active_thread_type is set. please let me know if anyone is
> aware of this.

you can set it with -thread_type from the command line

for the c code side see validate_thread_parameters() and the
surrounding code

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