On 03/28/2010 02:40 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others (e.g. chromium) do not.
First, mplayer uses its own bundled ffmpeg. It doesn't use media-video/ffmpeg at all.
Furthermore, this is not what the "threads" USE flag does for ffmpeg. Those applications that allow you to specify an amount of threads assume you're using ffmpeg-mt instead of normal ffmpeg. ffmpeg-mt is a fork of ffmpeg and is not in Portage because it's still considered non-stable upstream.
There's an ebuild in Gentoo Bugzilla for ffmpeg-mt and an mplayer that uses ffmpeg-mt as its bundled ffmpeg version. The mt mplayer ebuild can also be found in the wirelay overlay (it's in layman.)
