[MPlayer-dev-eng] using pthreads with mplayer

[Oded Shimon]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:09:31PM -0100, Andrea Palmat? wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just for my knowledge. In which way pthreads are used on mplayer and how 
> can they speedup it?

lol, there are no pthreads in MPlayer, at all. Disregarding -cache, MPlayer 
is a completely single-threaded program. You're possibly thinking of 
MPlayerXP, which is a threaded version of MPlayer. The way it works is by 
making threads to decode the picture, and a single thread which each time 
shows a new frame on the VO. Whether this speeds this up or not is 
debatable, but not here.

- ods15