Bug#575600: ffmpeg: Please add ffmpeg-mt for multithreading support

Moritz Mühlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Sat Apr 23 20:47:00 UTC 2011


On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 05:26:21PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> tags 575600 wontfix
> stop
> 
> On Sa, Mar 27, 2010 at 16:07:28 (CET), Henri wrote:
> 
> > Subject: Please add ffmpeg-mt for multithreading support
> > Package: ffmpeg
> > Version: 4:0.5.1-3
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > ffmpeg-mt enabled mutithreaded decoding for ffmpeg. This is necesary for
> > watch e.g. h264 movies with huge bitrates (+10000kbit/s).
> > ffmpeg-mt is currently located here: http://gitorious.org/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-mt
> >
> > Description on http://gitorious.org/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-mt:
> > Experimental multithreaded decoding branch of FFmpeg, based on a project
> > for Google SoC 2008. See mt-work/todo.txt for remaining tasks.
> >
> > Please consider adding it to the official repositories.
> 
> thank you for you report.
> 
> unfortunately, ffmpeg-mt is not really supported by ffmpeg upstream, and
> known to cause various regressions depending on the exact date of the
> snapshot. For these reason, I consider ffmpeg-mt unreasonable to
> package.

ffmpeg-mt has been merged into ffmpeg mainline. I suppose the same will
happen for libav (or has happened already?), so this should no longer
be wontfix?

Cheers,
        Moritz





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