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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
FFmpeg README ------------- 1) Documentation ---------------- * Read the documentation in the doc/ directory. 2) Licensing ------------ * Read the file COPYING. ffmpeg and the associated libraries EXCEPT liba52 and libpostproc are licensed under the Lesser GNU General Public License. * liba52 and libpostproc are distributed under the GNU General Public License and their compilation and use is optional in ffmpeg. Fabrice Bellard.