[Ffmpeg-devel] really slow decoding of huffyuv-encoded video

[Michel Bardiaux]

Thoralf Schulze wrote:
> hi,
> 
> --- Michel Bardiaux <mbardiaux at mediaxim.be> wrote:
> 
>>> cpu usage is going through the roof when ffmpeg
>>> decodes huffyuv-encoded video. 
>> Then the problem should be reported to the gentoo
>> package maintainer, 
>> not here. Only the latest svn is supported here (not
>> here, actually, on 
>> ffmpeg-user).
> 
> okay ... however, couldn't there be a chance that this
> issue is caused by ffmpeg itself? imho, missing
> optimisations shouldn't account for such a huge
> performance impact that affects hfyu only. 
> 
> thank you,
> thoralf.
> 
You're asking the list to make guesses without data!

Your best strategy is to reproduce the issue using the svn version. Then 
post the command and output messages for the 2 runs on ffmpeg-user.

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