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

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:46:11AM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> >> > 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.
> >
> >Well, dual-core cpus rock modern desktops, and soon four-core desktops
> >cpus will come both from intel and amd... /me thinks argument about
> >beeing "faster" without threads doesn't apply anymore..
> 
> That's true... But like always, the ones who care about such a feature
> should help themselves with their keyboard and code support for it.

I don't think it would help because it would be rejected. Unless they
can find a way to include _optional_ threads support that can be fully
left out at compiletime.

Rich