[MPlayer-users] How to build mplayer with multi-threaded video decoding

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Krzysztof Duchnowski <amidk75 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> You can't build standard MPlayer to be MT.

Default MPlayer from svn://mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk supports frame-based
multi-threaded decoding of - for example - H264. See homepage, but note that you
have to set threads to a value higher than the number of cores for maximum
performance.

Carl Eugen