2010/3/21 Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com>: > Ok this is a bit off-topic, but why 4 threads for dual-core without HT? I did some benchmarks and 4 threads gave me quite better results. You can try yourself with: mplayer -vc ffh264 -lavdopts threads=N -vo null -benchmark -nosound Cheers, Darkbasic