doc/codecs: extend documentation for the threads option

10 years ago · 51c5e924b9
parent 106cab1152
commit 51c5e924b9
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--- a/doc/codecs.texi
+++ b/doc/codecs.texi
@ -817,13 +817,17 @@ for codecs that support it. See also @file{doc/examples/export_mvs.c}.
 Deprecated, use mpegvideo private options instead.

@item threads @var{integer} (@emph{decoding/encoding,video})
+Set the number of threads to be used, in case the selected codec
+implementation supports multi-threading.

 Possible values:
@table @samp
-@item auto
-detect a good number of threads
+@item auto, 0
+automatically select the number of threads to set
@end table

+Default value is @samp{auto}.
+
@item me_threshold @var{integer} (@emph{encoding,video})
 Set motion estimation threshold.