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

[Diego Biurrun]

Roberto Ragusa writes:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:15:47 -0400
> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 
> > re-read what i just said about snow. snow already requires an insanely
> > fast cpu....in fact at present it can't be decoded realtime on _any_
> > cpu. this will change once we get some more optimization but it's
> > still going to be intensive.
> 
> In my ignorance, I'm hearing about snow for the first time and will
> search information about that. I think we're currently lacking a seriously
> powerful codec at the moment.

Snow is a wavelet based video codec with lossy and lossless modes
written by Michael Niedermayer into FFmpeg/libavcodec.  It looks quite
promising but currently is too slow for real use.

Diego