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kiranrao
6th February 2006, 11:42
anyone has an idea what threadId (used in wmv 9 implementation by MS) stands for? has it anything to do with multiple processors? how does it affect loop filtering?
diogen
6th February 2006, 22:33
anyone has an idea what threadId (used in wmv 9 implementation by MS) stands for? has it anything to do with multiple processors? how does it affect loop filtering?
The registry key called Force NumThreads as documented here
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/codecadvancedsettings.aspx
is in charge of defining the number of threads the encoder uses.

Diogen.