[MPlayer-users] IS SMP support for X264 decoding possible

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:14:35PM -0400, Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
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> On Sep 18, 2006, at 18.58, Loren Merritt wrote:
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> >>Does anyone know if
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> >>1. x264 support SMP decode
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> >>2. How to enable it in MPlayer
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> >>I have some test 1080i h264 files that currently flatline a single
> >>cpu, but should decode well if I could use all of a dual core.
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> >x264 doesn't decode at all. ffh264 is the decoder, and no it  
> >doesn't support SMP.
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> Well, there's no reason that MPlayer still can't take advantage of  
> some SMP stuff. For example: decoding audio on the second core, or  
> applying any filters using the second core.

The reason is that it's slower except on SMP, impossible to debug, and
just ugly.

Rich