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| -rw-r--r-- | DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 | 11 |
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diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 index 6ec38aa7ad..69b03dc5a0 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 +++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 @@ -9590,12 +9590,11 @@ Use this parameter only if you know what it means, and you have a need to set it. . .TP -.B threads=<1\-4> -Split each frame into slices and encode them in parallel (default: 1). -Also allows multithreaded decoding if the decoder supports it (lavc does not). -This has a slight penalty to compression. -Requires that libx264 was compiled with pthread support; if not, this -option will produce a warning and enables slices but not multithreading. +.B threads=<0\-16> +Spawn threads to encode in parallel on multiple CPUs (default: 1). +This has a slight penalty to compression quality. +0 or 'auto' tells x264 to detect how many CPUs you have and pick an +appropriate number of threads. . .TP .B (no)global_header |