[FFmpeg-devel] git ffmpeg/Xbmc lockup

Kelly Anderson kelly at silka.with-linux.com
Sat Jan 7 18:27:36 CET 2012


On 01/07/2012 10:03 AM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> Hi,
>> "git show d185278" and "git diff f5be84c..d185278" should be showing pretty
>> much the same commit.
>> But there's a whole bunch of crap that actually got changed when you see the
>> output of the git diff.
>>
> You can't take the chronological order as shown by the web interface
> as anything but an overview. The actual parent of d185278 is 4278023.
> The web interface sadly doesn't show the full truth, because of the
> merges from libav. Its not a linear history.
>
> I can imagine that the freezes are being caused by the "new" automatic
> multi-threading which is even used during file probing (which already
> caused numerous issues).
> Michael send a patch to the ML to disable it for the time being, i
> would recommend to apply it and see if you can still reproduce it?
OK, I used --disable-pthreads and the problem is gone.  My build scripts
automatically do an --enable-pthreads unless I override it with 
--disable-pthreads.
So I guess something must not be right in the new threading code.


>
> - Hendrik
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