[Libav-user] FFMPEG decoding H264 and Multithreading

["René J.V. Bertin"]

On Feb 09, 2013, at 19:32, Camera Man wrote:

> On 02/08/2013 07:19 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> 
>> You should use multi-threading if you want
>> to decrease overall decoding time, if you
>> need minimal cpu usage, force -threads 1
>> (multithreading always has an overhead).

And, if it's still actual, multithreaded decoding only makes sense for H.264 with slices.

R