Add IterableDataset.decode with multithreading #7450
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Useful for dataset streaming for multimodal datasets, and especially for lerobot.
It speeds up streaming up to 20 times.
When decoding is enabled (default), media types are decoded:
You can enable multithreading using
num_threads
. This is especially useful to speed up remotedata streaming. However it can be slower than
num_threads=0
for local data on fast disks.PS: Disabling decoding is useful if you want to iterate on the paths or bytes of the media files
without actually decoding their content.
Example: Speed up streaming with multithreading:
why not multiprocessing ? decoding is done with the GIL released in soundfile/PIL/torchvision so multiprocessing would just use more memory
TODO