must be closed (this differs from _beginthread).
Patch by Shehzad Salim (shehzadsalim gmail com)
Originally committed as revision 19633 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Windows x64 has no __stdcall.
It is not yet supported, but someday it might...
Originally committed as revision 12363 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Necessary for systems that don't align by default to 16 bytes, required by some
SSE instructions.
Requires GCC >= 4.2.
Based on patch by Gaël Chardon.
Originally committed as revision 10106 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
multithreaded/SMP encoding for MPEG1/MPEG2/MPEG4/H263
all pthread specific code is in pthread.c
to try it, run configure --enable-pthreads and ffmpeg ... -threads <num>
the internal thread API is a simple AVCodecContext.execute() callback which executes a given function pointer with different arguments and returns after finishing all, that way no mutexes or other thread-mess is needed outside pthread.c
Originally committed as revision 2772 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Shehzad Salim
Roman Shaposhnik
Ramiro Polla
Diego Biurrun
Michael Niedermayer