[gst-devel] What is 'streaming thread'?

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 12:55 +0100, timothe jahan wrote:

> Does some plugin have their own multithreading capability ?
> My interest is for the x264 encoder. Multithreading of the h264
> encoding process is a mandatory thing as soon as you do live encoding.

This is done at the x264 library level and hidden from both GStreamer
and the application (but configurable of course, see gst-inspect
x264enc).

Cheers
 -Tim