Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include an accelerator module that modifies a single application to run on multiple processing cores of a single CPU. In one aspect, the application performs a task that includes some parallel operations and some serial operations. The parallel tasks may be run on different cores concurrently. In addition, serial tasks may be broken up to execute among different cores simultaneously without errors. In a particular embodiment, a FFMPEG decoding application is modified by the accelerator module to execute on multiple cores and perform video decoding in real time or faster than real time.