[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] enable threading by default or add threading to 'too slow' message

[Josh]

On 1/13/2013 16:41, compn wrote:
> theres little reason now not to enable threading.
>
> at the very least, this can be added:
>
> Index: help_mp-en.h
> ===================================================================
> --- help_mp-en.h        (revision 35738)
> +++ help_mp-en.h        (working copy)
> @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@
>   "- Slow CPU\n"\
>   "  - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,\n"\
>   "    e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.\n"\
> +"    enable multithreaded decoding -lavdopts threads=4.\n"\
>   "- Broken file\n"\
>   "  - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.\n"\
>   "- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)\n"\
>
>
> -compn
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I always keep threads enabled at 4 (can do 8 but that's overkill) and 
don't have any problems. It doesn't play nice though when slices is 
enabled, I keep that disabled. In one particular file,  4 or more 
threads with slices enabled causes "signal 11 in module: flip_page" but 
may also cause really bad flickering/other distortion with slices.