diff --git a/test/test-data.sha1 b/test/test-data.sha1
index b8f668a78..18f5b8859 100644
--- a/test/test-data.sha1
+++ b/test/test-data.sha1
@@ -591,3 +591,7 @@ c21e97e4ba486520118d78b01a5cb6e6dc33e190  vp90-2-12-droppable_3.ivf
 601abc9e4176c70f82ac0381365e9b151fdd24cd  vp90-2-12-droppable_3.ivf.md5
 61c640dad23cd4f7ad811b867e7b7e3521f4e3ba  vp90-2-13-largescaling.webm
 bca1b02eebdb088fa3f389fe0e7571e75a71f523  vp90-2-13-largescaling.webm.md5
+248e799b418cc4a20db149f0ca085583e772643c  vp90-2-14-resize-1280x720-848x480.webm
+80b82616efc12593d796b7b1d5cee06c48a0a11e  vp90-2-14-resize-1280x720-848x480.webm.md5
+df93c49c951c460dfebd06af1e81ca11de7e3f51  vp90-2-14-resize-848x480-1280x720.webm
+b1faac0b794a50efa811253d255940c4b1c3b885  vp90-2-14-resize-848x480-1280x720.webm.md5
diff --git a/test/test.mk b/test/test.mk
index 4d96bc69d..0cf2b3655 100644
--- a/test/test.mk
+++ b/test/test.mk
@@ -698,6 +698,10 @@ LIBVPX_TEST_DATA-$(CONFIG_VP9_DECODER) += vp90-2-13-largescaling.webm
 LIBVPX_TEST_DATA-$(CONFIG_VP9_DECODER) += vp90-2-13-largescaling.webm.md5
 LIBVPX_TEST_DATA-$(CONFIG_VP9_DECODER) += vp91-2-04-yv444.webm
 LIBVPX_TEST_DATA-$(CONFIG_VP9_DECODER) += vp91-2-04-yv444.webm.md5
+LIBVPX_TEST_DATA-$(CONFIG_VP9_DECODER) += vp90-2-14-resize-1280x720-848x480.webm
+LIBVPX_TEST_DATA-$(CONFIG_VP9_DECODER) += vp90-2-14-resize-1280x720-848x480.webm.md5
+LIBVPX_TEST_DATA-$(CONFIG_VP9_DECODER) += vp90-2-14-resize-848x480-1280x720.webm
+LIBVPX_TEST_DATA-$(CONFIG_VP9_DECODER) += vp90-2-14-resize-848x480-1280x720.webm.md5
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_DECODE_PERF_TESTS),yes)
 # BBB VP9 streams
diff --git a/test/test_vectors.cc b/test/test_vectors.cc
index 8c789ffe7..a718f3d41 100644
--- a/test/test_vectors.cc
+++ b/test/test_vectors.cc
@@ -164,7 +164,9 @@ const char *const kVP9TestVectors[] = {
   "vp90-2-11-size-351x287.webm", "vp90-2-11-size-351x288.webm",
   "vp90-2-11-size-352x287.webm", "vp90-2-12-droppable_1.ivf",
   "vp90-2-12-droppable_2.ivf", "vp90-2-12-droppable_3.ivf",
-  "vp90-2-13-largescaling.webm", "vp91-2-04-yv444.webm"
+  "vp90-2-13-largescaling.webm", "vp91-2-04-yv444.webm",
+  "vp90-2-14-resize-1280x720-848x480.webm",
+  "vp90-2-14-resize-848x480-1280x720.webm"
 };
 const int kNumVP9TestVectors = NELEMENTS(kVP9TestVectors);
 #endif  // CONFIG_VP9_DECODER
diff --git a/test/vp9_thread_test.cc b/test/vp9_thread_test.cc
index a78cdea6b..731c236e3 100644
--- a/test/vp9_thread_test.cc
+++ b/test/vp9_thread_test.cc
@@ -153,6 +153,26 @@ TEST(VP9DecodeMTTest, MTDecode2) {
   }
 }
 
+// Test tile quantity changes within one file.
+TEST(VP9DecodeMTTest, MTDecode3) {
+  static const struct {
+    const char *name;
+    const char *expected_md5;
+  } files[] = {
+    { "vp90-2-14-resize-1280x720-848x480.webm",
+      "1fe742b0c5d9ed92314b7bc68bbea153" },
+    { "vp90-2-14-resize-848x480-1280x720.webm",
+      "0f163f491617f0ebcb80f1033eeb5d40" },
+  };
+
+  for (int i = 0; i < static_cast<int>(sizeof(files) / sizeof(files[0])); ++i) {
+    for (int t = 2; t <= 8; ++t) {
+      EXPECT_STREQ(files[i].expected_md5, DecodeFile(files[i].name, t).c_str())
+          << "threads = " << t;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 INSTANTIATE_TEST_CASE_P(Synchronous, VP9WorkerThreadTest, ::testing::Bool());
 
 }  // namespace
diff --git a/vp9/decoder/vp9_decodeframe.c b/vp9/decoder/vp9_decodeframe.c
index 6784238de..0b0b41e75 100644
--- a/vp9/decoder/vp9_decodeframe.c
+++ b/vp9/decoder/vp9_decodeframe.c
@@ -882,12 +882,16 @@ static const uint8_t *decode_tiles_mt(VP9Decoder *pbi,
   assert(tile_rows == 1);
   (void)tile_rows;
 
-  if (num_workers > pbi->num_tile_workers) {
+  // TODO(jzen): See if we can remove the restriction of passing in max
+  // threads to the decoder.
+  if (pbi->num_tile_workers == 0) {
+    const int num_threads = pbi->oxcf.max_threads & ~1;
     int i;
+    // TODO(jzern): Allocate one less worker, as in the current code we only
+    // use num_threads - 1 workers.
     CHECK_MEM_ERROR(cm, pbi->tile_workers,
-                    vpx_realloc(pbi->tile_workers,
-                                num_workers * sizeof(*pbi->tile_workers)));
-    for (i = pbi->num_tile_workers; i < num_workers; ++i) {
+                    vpx_malloc(num_threads * sizeof(*pbi->tile_workers)));
+    for (i = 0; i < num_threads; ++i) {
       VP9Worker *const worker = &pbi->tile_workers[i];
       ++pbi->num_tile_workers;
 
@@ -895,7 +899,7 @@ static const uint8_t *decode_tiles_mt(VP9Decoder *pbi,
       CHECK_MEM_ERROR(cm, worker->data1,
                       vpx_memalign(32, sizeof(TileWorkerData)));
       CHECK_MEM_ERROR(cm, worker->data2, vpx_malloc(sizeof(TileInfo)));
-      if (i < num_workers - 1 && !vp9_worker_reset(worker)) {
+      if (i < num_threads - 1 && !vp9_worker_reset(worker)) {
         vpx_internal_error(&cm->error, VPX_CODEC_ERROR,
                            "Tile decoder thread creation failed");
       }
@@ -903,7 +907,7 @@ static const uint8_t *decode_tiles_mt(VP9Decoder *pbi,
   }
 
   // Reset tile decoding hook
-  for (n = 0; n < pbi->num_tile_workers; ++n) {
+  for (n = 0; n < num_workers; ++n) {
     pbi->tile_workers[n].hook = (VP9WorkerHook)tile_worker_hook;
   }
 
diff --git a/vp9/decoder/vp9_dthread.c b/vp9/decoder/vp9_dthread.c
index 74d072cea..9b124c9d9 100644
--- a/vp9/decoder/vp9_dthread.c
+++ b/vp9/decoder/vp9_dthread.c
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ void vp9_loop_filter_frame_mt(VP9Decoder *pbi,
                               int y_only, int partial_frame) {
   // Number of superblock rows and cols
   const int sb_rows = mi_cols_aligned_to_sb(cm->mi_rows) >> MI_BLOCK_SIZE_LOG2;
+  const int tile_cols = 1 << cm->log2_tile_cols;
+  const int num_workers = MIN(pbi->oxcf.max_threads & ~1, tile_cols);
   int i;
 
   // Allocate memory used in thread synchronization.
@@ -168,7 +170,16 @@ void vp9_loop_filter_frame_mt(VP9Decoder *pbi,
              sizeof(*pbi->lf_row_sync.cur_sb_col) * sb_rows);
 
   // Set up loopfilter thread data.
-  for (i = 0; i < pbi->num_tile_workers; ++i) {
+  // The decoder is using num_workers instead of pbi->num_tile_workers
+  // because it has been observed that using more threads on the
+  // loopfilter, than there are tile columns in the frame will hurt
+  // performance on Android. This is because the system will only
+  // schedule the tile decode workers on cores equal to the number
+  // of tile columns. Then if the decoder tries to use more threads for the
+  // loopfilter, it will hurt performance because of contention. If the
+  // multithreading code changes in the future then the number of workers
+  // used by the loopfilter should be revisited.
+  for (i = 0; i < num_workers; ++i) {
     VP9Worker *const worker = &pbi->tile_workers[i];
     TileWorkerData *const tile_data = (TileWorkerData*)worker->data1;
     LFWorkerData *const lf_data = &tile_data->lfdata;
@@ -184,10 +195,10 @@ void vp9_loop_filter_frame_mt(VP9Decoder *pbi,
     lf_data->y_only = y_only;   // always do all planes in decoder
 
     lf_data->lf_sync = &pbi->lf_row_sync;
-    lf_data->num_lf_workers = pbi->num_tile_workers;
+    lf_data->num_lf_workers = num_workers;
 
     // Start loopfiltering
-    if (i == pbi->num_tile_workers - 1) {
+    if (i == num_workers - 1) {
       vp9_worker_execute(worker);
     } else {
       vp9_worker_launch(worker);
@@ -195,7 +206,7 @@ void vp9_loop_filter_frame_mt(VP9Decoder *pbi,
   }
 
   // Wait till all rows are finished
-  for (i = 0; i < pbi->num_tile_workers; ++i) {
+  for (i = 0; i < num_workers; ++i) {
     vp9_worker_sync(&pbi->tile_workers[i]);
   }
 }