Multi-Threading for Multi-Thread CPU Support?

[DGMurdockIII]

I would like to see multi-thread support for xbmc and here is some info i have forund on the web on Multithreading and even taking advanage of computers that have more that one cpu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multithreading

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_multithreading

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprocessing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_(computing)

http://www.multicore-association.org/home.php

http://www.cilk.com/multicore-blog/

http://multicore.ning.com/

multi threading api - http://openmp.org/ & https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/openMP/

[jmarshall]

XBMC has used multiple threads for the last 6 years or so.

[empty]

If I scan for new movies via SMB it is so slow (everything is local stored) so is has to be more faster or am I a dreamer? Multi downloading of movies (tbn,nfo,trailer, etc.) isn't supported yet?

[althekiller]

If I scan for new movies via SMB it is so slow (everything is local stored) so is has to be more faster or am I a dreamer? Multi downloading of movies (tbn,nfo,trailer, etc.) isn't supported yet?

libsmbclient isn't thread safe, so it has to be locked. This is the bottleneck you're seeing