Re: to be effcient or not to be efficient

Enrico Weigelt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.media-api
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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)


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