[MPlayer-dev-eng] Adding threaded functionality to mplayer NODAEMON

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,

>>>20ms of audio, sync frame, check keyboard, etc, etc.  With the thread 
>>>approach you would likely try to decode 25 frames, then decode 20sec of 
>>>audio, and then you have only a small number of threads doing actions 
>>
>>25 decoded frames at 1024x768 in RGBA: 1024*768*4*25= ca. 75 MB! I'd 
>>prefer MPlayer to use a bit less memory than that!
> 
> irrelevant since video isn't rgba. 25 frames of 1024x768 video is
> 28MB, quite reasonable.

Well, as your are arguing about 300Mhz CPUs... I also have a computer 
with 32MB RAM... And depending on your filter chain you _might_ have a 
rgba picture quite early on...

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger