[MPlayer-users] Threading in audio/video decoding

Gábor Lénárt lgb at lgb.hu
Thu Jun 19 08:41:15 CEST 2003


On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:38:41PM +0200, Niek Bergboer wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> I know the issue of threading in MPlayer has been raised before, but I'm
> not referring to multithreading in GUIs in this mail.
> 
> Rather, I was wondering if it is anywhere near possible in MPlayer to
> decode the audio and video (or the video itself) in two parallel
> threads: I have a Dual Celeron 466 which is _just_ to slow to playback
> DVDs and some DivX well, while only 1 CPU is used in MPlayer.

Celeron 466 should be enough, Arpi played DVD's on Celeron 300 or such
I can't remember exectly. The main bottleneck is video hw here not CPU
I think ...

- Gábor (larta'H)



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