[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavf: Do not attempt to use frame multi threading when probing.

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 06:54:55PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On 7 Jan 2012, at 15:44, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > This fixes various problems with getting stream info. For example playback of the
> > file of Ticket88. Multithreaded find_stream_info should be reenabled
> > once it works correctly
> > This partly reverts 212fd3a1f1121a9db20c478f1fccf15e8bb53c94
> 
> Is it still broken after my fix?

retried, yes


> In principle I am in favour since I don't really think probing should be multi-threaded (then overhead is likely to be more than the benefit, for example it might lead to quite a lot more frames being decoded than necessary),

yes


> however there's a good chance this is just hiding some real issues that might not even be completely related to multithreading.

very possible but we already know of a sample that breaks so no need
to keep it enabled until we are out of known bugs


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