[FFmpeg-soc] [soc] Add choice of threading algorithm to AVCodecContext.

[Alexander Strange]

On Jun 17, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 07:57:05PM -0400, Alexander Strange wrote:
>>
>> Use it to simplify USE_* macros.
>> FF_THREAD_AUTO needs to be handled better - even if a codec can  
>> handle frame-threads, we still don't want to use them if there are  
>> enough slices available.
>
> I also do not really like that this design does not allow to use both.
> E.g. when 16 core CPUs become common just one type may not be good
> enough ;-)
> Or to say it differently: I think the problem is not just with
> FF_THREAD_AUTO but in the design in general.
>
> Greetings,
> Reimar Döffinger

You can't run out of threads for multiframes, but eventually I guess  
it would be better to have x frame threads * x slice threads. Sounds  
more useful for encoding, though; does anyone really need to decode  
that fast?

I'll look at it, anyway.