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We suspect that there are starvation issues in our multithreading implementation that could improve performance if fixed.</p> </li> <li> <p>Explore hardware level interfaces to acceleration blocks.</p> </li> <li> <p>Look at GPGPU - offload encoding and decoding to the GPU where possible.</p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="span10 offset1"> </div> </div> </div> <!-- /container --> </div> <footer class=""> <div class="container handfoot"> <div class="row"> <section class="span2 offset1"> <h6>About</h6> <ul> <li><a href="/about/">About WebM</a></li> <li><a href="/about/faq/">FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="/about/discuss/">Discuss</a></li> <li><a href="/about/supporters/">Supporters</a></li> </ul> <h6>More</h6> <ul> <li><a href="/tools/">Tools</a></li> <li><a href="/license/">Licenses</a></li> <li><a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webm/index.html" class="no-ext">Downloads</a></li> <li><a href="/cross-license/">VP8 Cross-License</a></li> </ul> </section> <section class="span2"> <h6>Developer</h6> <ul> <li><a href="/code/">Overview</a></li> <li><a href="/code/contribute/">Contribute</a></li> <li><a href="/code/contribute/submitting-patches/">Submitting Patches</a></li> <li><a href="/code/contribute/code-reviews/">Code Reviews</a></li> <li><a href="/code/contribute/workflow/">Workflow</a></li> <li><a href="/code/contribute/conventions/">Conventions</a></li> <li><a href="/code/bug-reporting/">Bug Reporting</a></li> <li><a href="/code/build-prerequisites/">Build Prerequisites</a></li> <li><a href="/code/repository-layout/">Repository Layout</a></li> <li><a href="/code/releases/">Releases</a></li> <li><a href="/code/roadmap/">Roadmap</a></li> </ul> </section> <section class="span3"> <h6>Docs</h6> <ul> <li><a href="/docs/webm-sdk/">WebM Codec SDK</a></li> <li><a href="/docs/container/">WebM Container Format</a></li> <li><a href="/docs/webm-encryption/">WebM Encryption</a></li> <li><a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-payload-vp8">VP8 RTP Proposal (Draft)</a></li> <li><a href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6386/">RFC 6386: VP8 Data Format</a></li> <li><a href="/docs/encoder-parameters/">Encoder Examples</a></li> <li><a href="http://wiki.webmproject.org/">Wiki</a></li> </ul> </section> <section class="span3 badges" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="row"> <div class="span3" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"> Copyright 2010 - <script type="text/javascript" nonce="kczeluTtNTOFpvgGg59czg">document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); </script><br> The WebM Project </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="span3" style="margin-bottom: 1em;"> <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/logo/" class="no-ext"><img src="/media/images/html5-logo.png" alt="HTML5 Powered with CSS3 / Styling, and Semantics" title="HTML5 Powered with CSS3 / Styling, and Semantics"></a> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="span3"> <a href="mailto:webmaster@webmproject.org">webmaster@webmproject.org</a> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> </footer> <script nonce="kczeluTtNTOFpvgGg59czg"> $(document).ready(function(){ $("a.tocbutton").click(function () { $("div.toc").slideToggle("slow"); var text = $(this).text() == 'Show Contents' ? 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