Add configuration option to set writer's maximum frames in memory.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/writer.cc b/src/lib/writer.cc
index b5123ad74..3f0c687c2 100644
--- a/src/lib/writer.cc
+++ b/src/lib/writer.cc
@@ -676,16 +676,7 @@ operator== (QueueItem const & a, QueueItem const & b)
 void
 Writer::set_encoder_threads (int threads)
 {
-	/* I think the scaling factor here should be the ratio of the longest frame
-	   encode time to the shortest; if the thread count is T, longest time is L
-	   and the shortest time S we could encode L/S frames per thread whilst waiting
-	   for the L frame to encode so we might have to store LT/S frames.
-
-	   However we don't want to use too much memory, so keep it a bit lower than we'd
-	   perhaps like.  A J2K frame is typically about 1Mb so 3 here will mean we could
-	   use about 240Mb with 72 encoding threads.
-	*/
-	_maximum_frames_in_memory = lrint (threads * 3);
+	_maximum_frames_in_memory = lrint (threads * Config::instance()->frames_in_memory_multiplier());
 }
 
 void