[MPlayer-dev-eng] N-buffering...

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 6/1/05, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:36:03AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > Would it help to implement a video fifo of N frames? (Where N is perhaps
> > > 5 or 10). This would be like double-buffering but with N frames. If
> > > there are occasionally "difficult" frames to decode, the N-buffer would
> > > even it out. I realize that the N-buffer would affect A-V sync but that
> > > should be possible to solve...
> >
> > Not possible to solve in MPlayer's architecture, and in fact this is
> > very difficult to solve in any single-task player.
> 
> Wouldn't it be possible to move the output buffer into shared memory
> and use either a second process or a second thread (depending on the
> architecture which is cheaper) to display them at the right time?
> It would get most of the threading benefits without having to lock down
> mplayer (and the costs associated with that).

Cut it, MplayerXP does it. Go for it.
MPlayer is the player that doesn't do it.

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