ffmpeg multithread decoding,the rate is not improved

[xiaoyu]

Hi!
I'm trying to decode .264 file using ffmpeg with -threads option,i'm using a dual-core computer and build ffmpeg using the pthread option,but the rate is not improved,i wonder what is the reason.
my command line is:
time ./ffmpeg -y -threads 2 -thread_type slice -i test.264 test.yuv
and
time ./ffmpeg -y -threads 1 -i test.264 test.yuv
the time is close,i didn't see any improvement.
i tried to encode and transcode video using -threads option,i can see great improvment about twice speed improvent ,why does the multithread decode is not good?
i hope that someone can help me solve the problem!

[cehoyos]

Please provide complete, uncut console output.

[cehoyos]

Please reopen if you can add the missing information.

[jeroenost]

I can confirm this issue. The culprit might be this commit:
 http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=59297ad63dbd7f9a587e742e1d5b0e94ae125fff

Multithreaded decoding is disabled for H264.
That is a problem for high resolution H264 videos that need to reencoded realtime to another format by a multicore CPU with a relative low clock freq, where a single core cannot decode the entire video fast enough.

[heleppkes]

Slice threading implies your file actually has multiple slices.
You can try frame threading instead.

The commit you mentioned is only relevant during opening of the file, not for actual decoding.