[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] The Big Bump

[Justin Ruggles]

On 02/03/2011 03:24 PM, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:

> We should definitely remove all codec-specific options in
> AVCodecContext.  We should also reorder the options to work with
> ffmpeg-mt, like x264 does -- so that copying a codec state to a thread
> can be done with a memcpy instead of explicitly copying every option.
> 
> That is, make a section of the struct for things that need to be thread-synced.


Why would we remove all codec-specific options?  We only have 1 now, but
I want to add some for the AC-3 encoder.  Or do you just mean we should
specify strict requirements for how codec-specific options are used and
change our 1 existing option to fit those requirements?

-Justin