BigSmoke » threads http://blog.bigsmoke.us Smokes your problems, coughs fresh air. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:03:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Enabling mplayers multithreading for HD video. http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2010/02/28/enabling-mplayers-multithreading-for-hd-video http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2010/02/28/enabling-mplayers-multithreading-for-hd-video#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:29:13 +0000 halfgaar http://blog.bigsmoke.us/?p=1299 Certain codecs support multithreaded decoding, but you have to configure it, though. You can do that by adding this to your mplayer.conf: 

lavdopts=threads=2

I do believe you need a special multi threaded binary of Mplayer, though. But, I’m not sure.

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