The various avcodec_thread_init() functions are updated to return
immediately after setting avctx->thread_count. This allows -threads 0
to pass through to codecs. It also simplifies the usage for apps
using libavcodec.
Originally committed as revision 21358 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
processing with jobs > threads without wasting too much memory.
It also avoids needing a separate int array when the only additional data
the jobs needs is a single int running from 0 to count-1.
Originally committed as revision 20210 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Necessary for systems that don't align by default to 16 bytes, required by some
SSE instructions.
Requires GCC >= 4.2.
Based on patch by Gaël Chardon.
Originally committed as revision 10106 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG1/MPEG2/MPEG4/H263
all pthread specific code is in pthread.c
to try it, run configure --enable-pthreads and ffmpeg ... -threads <num>
the internal thread API is a simple AVCodecContext.execute() callback which executes a given function pointer with different arguments and returns after finishing all, that way no mutexes or other thread-mess is needed outside pthread.c
Originally committed as revision 2772 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
