[MPlayer-users] 1080p/60fps plays fine in vlc, not in mplayer

[Grant]

>> >>> -lavdopts threads=4 yields perfect playback. In future
>> >>> versions, will mplayer grab more than one core by default?
>> >>
>> >> Personally, I strongly prefer the current default
>> >> so I don't know.
>>
>> What would be the rationale not to use all/4/2 cores by default?
>
> Apart from the fact that it does not come for free
> (it does not nearly scale linearly), until a week
> ago, multi-threaded decoded failed for some samples.
>
> Since this is fixed now, I guess the default will
> soon be to use more threads, but don't expect me
> to work on it.
>
> Carl Eugen

OK, I'm glad we're heading in that direction.

- Grant