[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: 0.90 release plans and others

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:07:33PM +0800, Anders Johansson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >     It's so sad as for me... I thought about some new features... It's
> > about ve_fame, it's about some subtitles improvements and about very big
> > one - what about to make videoeditor? I think mplayer/mencoder has most
> > of functions of it. I've really tired of rebooting to windows because I
> > have to run NanDub...
> 
> I have some ideas on this, (just ideas not flaim bait :). Wouldn't it
> be possible to split up mplayer into several processes (not threads!),
> and use shared memory areas to pass data between the applications. My
> idea is to have many different processes running in parallel:

It will ALWAYS be slower on single cpu due to context changes. :( If
you have money to waste on dual (or more) cpu then you don't need
mplayer to be faster.

Rich