[FFmpeg-devel] h264 multithreading, chapter 2

[Andreas Öman]

Hi,

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> you already summarized everything ...
> i hope we will have frame based prallelism soon, when will you implement
> it? :)

My plan was to start with this after the PAFF-dust has settled.
I need to get my head around the PAFF stuff and see how/if it
affects the frame level parallelism.

> after that we can decide if this makes sense or not ... we could decide
> before but that would be a decission based on guessing which isnt good
> 
> we might end up wasting time cleaning and reviewing code and likely
> even fixing bugs and then just find out theres no speed gain from it
> relative to frame based ...

Yes, that's probably wise, i just had a few hours to spend and thought
i'd share the stuff so far.