[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] multi-threaded lavc

[Attila Kinali]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:14:08AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 July 2004 00:51, Loren Merritt wrote:
> > Patch allows use of libavcodec's multi-threaded encoding.
> applied
> 
> > The results are not bitwise identical to a single-threaded encode, but
> this is because the motion estimation normally uses the motion vector of the 
> MB above the current one, but thats not possible if the top one happens to be 
> handled by a different thread

So, theoreticaly the motion estimation is a little bit worse if
multithreading is used ? I think this should be mentioned in the
manpage. I also think that the current text is a bit too short.
Something like "Use multithreading with a maximum of n threads"
would be better. And of course somethign like "might give slightly worse
results".


			Attila Kinali