[FFmpeg-devel] multiple instances of avcodec

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:50:50AM +0200, Emanuele Fumagalli wrote:
> Hi,
> probably this is quite off topic but this is the only place where I could 
> get an answer.
> Is it possible to decode two video streams at the same time?
> I just need to know if ffmpeg supports it or has some static that prevents 
> runnin multiple instances in the same process.

the ffmpeg application does not do this, but all the library code
fully supports as many decoder instances as you like.

rich


p.s. do not hijack threads!!