[MPlayer-users] Re: MPlayer-users Digest, Vol 27, Issue 59

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On Mar 24, 2006, at 9:29 AM, Gaute Strokkenes wrote:

> Thanks to you and everyone else who pitched in.  I have decided to get
> an Athlon 64 4000+.  I was considering an X2, but there aren't really
> any multi-threaded codecs out there yet, so I figured I should just
> get the fastest single-core CPU that I can.
>

uh, really? lavc takes threads=n as an argument, and it definitely 
speeds up encoding on my A64 X2. like from 70fps to 80fps with 
threads=2 on pass1 of dvd transcoding to mpeg4.

rob