[Mlt-devel] MLT parallel-consumer branch

[Dan D. <da...@de...>]

You may have noticed a rather large set of interesting commits I just
made reflected to the mailing list. These are strictly confined to a
new branch named "parallel-consumer" as described in my post "got
cores?"
http://www.dennedy.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=106&Itemid=2

In case you decide to check it out, basically, you enable it by
setting the real_time property. It follows the existing semantics
where positive values enable frame-dropping - suitable for monitoring
or playout - and negative values disables it - for encoding. However,
values > 1 or < -1 now set the number of threads to use. I usually use
2 to 4 on my 8-core system. Keep in mind that the consumer you use can
be heavy (encoding with avformat) or somewhat sensitive to latency
(e.g., sdl); so leave a core for that. Also, if you are using
multi-threaded decoding or encoding, factor in those heavy threads.

Finally, this is still somewhat unstable. In particular, for now,
avoid RGB-based filters and transitions such as burningtv and frei0r.

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