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

[Attila Kinali]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:19:27AM +0100, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
 
> >MPlayer is mostly about two things: performance and stability.
> >And if you think that threading will not have any drawback on
> >performance then you should walk out of your university and have a look
> >at the real world. 
> >
> 
> I think I wrote a message a few clicks back where I have retracted the 
> suggestion to thread.  I only claimed that it might be cleaner, not 
> faster (although with multiple CPU's it might be).

Oops, sorry, my mistake.

> I see the resistence, and I have no desire to run a whole fork myself.  
> Please don't jump down my throat I was only trying to ask a general 
> design question since I was thinking quite seriously about having a bash 
> at cleaning up the main() loop.  Please try to offer me some support and 
> not drive me a way?

Code is always welcome. Discussion about ideas that most developers
think are a bad idea is a waste of time. If you want to clean up main,
go ahead. We will discuss your patch for sure.

 
> >A nice top design with a hackish implementation isnt better than a
> >hackish implementation with no design.
> > 
> >
> 
> You are putting words into my mouth.  At no point did I start a hackish 
> design.  I only asked some questions before starting on some work - this 
> sounds sensible to me - yes?

No ;)
SCNR
Dont take everything too serious on this list. :)

			Attila Kinali