[theora-dev] Multithread support

[M. Pabis]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Timothy B. Terriberry <tterribe at xiph.org>
wrote:

> Maik Merten wrote:
> > Am 04.02.2015 um 12:31 schrieb Timothy B. Terriberry:
> > Could this information be gathered by having one thread encode a
> > downsampled version of the input video sequence, or would this be a bad
> > predictor?
>
> Yes. x264 has a lookahead thread with exactly this purpose (among
> others). But current libtheora has nothing like this.
>
> Great, thanks for comments and ideas.
Is there anything obvious I'm missing why this improvement would be hard or
a waste of time?

Mateusz Pabis
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