Re: to be effcient or not to be efficient
Enrico Weigelt <[email protected]>
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* Jerome Bonnet <[email protected]> [2004-01-07 15:33:48 +0100]: <snip> > The real thread benefit is to use one thread for each entire processing > pipeline. For instance, pipelines are graphs in DirectShow, and each > graphs instance are encapsulated in one thread. This means that two > different videos playing in a GUI application will use two different > threads for each video (two pipelines, two DShow graph instances) and > one thread for the GUI (always a good thing to have a specific thread > for the GUI). ACK. MT can i.e. be useful for parallelizing video and audio playback. But this decision should be left to the application and should not be in scope of our API. Perhaps we can let modules provide some additional information which can be helpful for such applications. (no idea, what information that can be) cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT services phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [email protected] cellphone: +49 174 7066481 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Diese Mail wurde mit UUCP versandt. http://www.metux.de/uucp/