[FFmpeg-devel] prefetch_motion in FFMPEG

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:00:33AM +0530, Satish Hiremath wrote:
> Yes i benchmarked and verified on the Beagle board (500MHz). Input is mp4
> (H.264 with I,P,B) and out put is yuv4:2:0

the usefullness of prefetch depends on the hardware, cache and memory
architecture. On modern x86 it should be faster, i dont know about
how it behaves on ARM.


> 
> There is a function call "s->dsp.prefetch()". I want to know how the
> prefetch_motion works .

the idea is to fetch things that will soon be read before to reduce
latency and stalling the CPU.

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