Xine codec multithreaded? [Archive]

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Slave01

7th December 2006, 16:28

Hi i am playing with kaffeine, totem etc a 1080p h264 video on my core 2 duo and i see it is not multithread...Why? Is not ffdshow already multithreaded? Does Xine use libavcodec? Why mplayer can't handle it?

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Ciz

_xxl

7th December 2006, 17:32

Libavcodec h.264 decoder is not multithreaded.

Slave01

7th December 2006, 21:05

In ouput window there is a thread parameter...it is only for mpeg2 part or other decoder without h264? Is there any plan to implement it?

8th December 2006, 10:33

AFAIK only the MPEG-2 decoder is SMP-optimized in libavcodec. I don't think there is any plan to implement H.264 multi-threading, although there certainly is a lot of request for it. I think there was recently some discussion about writing a Cell (PS3) implementation on the FFmpeg developers mailing list, but I don't recall any SMP announcements for traditional architectures.