[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.1161,1.1162

[The Wanderer]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:39:04PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
>> 
>>> On 12/6/05, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:

>>>> How about something like "number of threads to use for decoding
>>>> (default: 1)"? Or is "threads=1" in fact different from
>>>> omitting the "threads" suboption altogether? (For that matter,
>>>> what would "threads=0" do, since there would then seem to be
>>>> nothing to do the processing?)
>>> 
>>> Good question. I don't know :-(
>> 
>> Then we need to find out. Are there any sufficiently
>> LAVC-knowledgeable people on this list, or do we need to go over to
>> ffmpeg-dev?
> 
> iam on the list but only reading every tenth message ...
> 
> threads=0 isnt allowed
> omiting threads=... should be equal to threads=1 all IIRC

Right; thanks. Will commit my rephrasing, with those changes, shortly -
and move the suboption into its alphabetical position at the same time.
The "multiprocessor machines" part can be added later, if it proves to
be accurate.

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