[Ffmpeg-devel] Threading in libavcodec

[Christian Iversen]

On Sunday 22 January 2006 21:30, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 06:41:11PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > Peter <mpegavc at gmail.com> writes:
> > > From what i"ve been able to find out it seems that the libavcodec
> > > itself is unthreaded.  Is that correct?
> >
> > Libavcodec can optionally be compiled to use multiple threads.  This
> > improves encoding speed on multiprocessor machines.
>
> And lowers quality.

Why?

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Regards,
Christian Iversen