[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Avcodec: limit the number of threads automatically selected to 12

[Rafaël Carré]

Le 11-12-29 04:36, Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen a écrit :
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:59:49PM -0500, Rafaël Carré wrote :
>>> Le 2011-12-28 21:08, Jean-Baptiste Kempf a écrit :
>>>> It seems that over 16 doesn't behave well. Reduce it further for safety
>>>
>>> What is the problem exactly ?
>>
>> According to ringo, it doesn't work at all with 24 threads. According to
>> the source, 16 threads is the maximum anyway.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
> 
> Doesn't work for me with ffmpeg-threads > 5, on a quad core.

5 does work?

What is the error, the assertion that Denis reported?

IIRC ringo had a different problem and he couldn't give much details