[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] vda: decode frame synchronously.

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 09:46:46PM +0200, Sebastien Zwickert wrote:
> From: Sebastien Zwickert <dilaroga at free.fr>
> 
> The current implementation of VDA uses the default mode: the hardware decoder is running
> asynchronously, that's why the HWAccel VDA must manage its own queue and then depends
> on pthreads. The client needs to wait until the queue is not empty in order to start
> processing the decoded frame. In VLC, there's a short flicker at the beginning of every
> movies and when we seek in movies due to this asynchrone mode.
> 
> These changes uses the hardware decoder synchronously so that VDA module is now able to
> return the decoded frame into the corresponding frame's data. Thus, the queue and its
> glue code become needless just like the pthreads dependency.
>

> But this patch removes a public struct and some public functions relative to the
> management of the queue so I bumped the minor version number.

This sounds possibly problematic
is anything using these removed things ?
consider vlc being linked to libavcodec.so.123
if the user updates libavcodec and vlc uses a removed symbol vlc might
not work anymore (depends also on how the symbol is used ...)

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