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-<chapter><title>Threading with VLC</title>
-
-<para>VLC is a multi-thread application. We chose against a single-thread
-    approach because decoder preemptibility and scheduling would be a
-    mastermind (for instance decoders and outputs have to be separated,
-    otherwise it cannot be warrantied that a frame will be played at the
-    exact presentation time), and we currently have no plan to support a
-    single-threaded client. Multi-process decoders usually imply more overhead
-    (problems of shared memory) and communication between processes is harder.
-    </para>
-
-
-<sect1><title>VLC's threading API</title>
-
-<para>For portability, VLC provides a wrapper for native threading API.
-It is modelled on the pthread library.</para>
-
-<para>Our wrapper consists of the following functions:</para>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem><para><function>vlc_thread_create</function></para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>    <function>vlc_thread_exit</function></para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>    <function>vlc_thread_join</function></para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>    <function>vlc_mutex_init</function></para></listitem>
-<listitem><para> <function>vlc_mutex_lock</function></para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>    <function>vlc_mutex_unlock</function></para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>    <function>vlc_mutex_destroy</function></para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>    <function>vlc_cond_init</function></para></listitem>
-<listitem><para> <function>vlc_cond_signal</function></para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>    <function>vlc_cond_broadcast</function></para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>    <function>vlc_cond_wait</function></para></listitem>
-<listitem><para> <function>vlc_cond_destroy</function></para></listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-
-<para>Corresponding data structures are <type>vlc_thread_t</type>,
-<type>vlc_mutex_t</type>, and <type>vlc_cond_t</type>. </para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-</chapter>