[FFmpeg-devel] Tee improvement - discussion

[Marton Balint]

On Thu, 26 May 2016, Nicolas George wrote:

> Le duodi 2 prairial, an CCXXIV, Marton Balint a écrit :
>> What caused these complications? Do you have some references?
>
> I do not remember exactly. There is the problem quoted by Michael. There is
> also a more global issue that options will be inconsistent: one
> implementation of non-blocking would have some set of options to control the
> queue size and overflow behaviour and such, and another implementation will
> have a different set of options. All very confusing for the user.
>
> Guideline: if at some point it makes sense for the users to run the tee
> muxer with a single output, just to get extra features it brings, then there
> is something deeply wrong with the design.

What if we decouple the non-blocking queue and the retry on failure logic 
to a separate "buffer" or "fifo" muxer?

This seems like what you are trying to do, and by using the exisiting 
muxer interface, we don't have to design new API around it.

Although I don't yet see if using three levels of muxing (E.g. the tee 
muxer invokes the fifo muxer, which will invoke the underlying real muxer) 
can cause any unseen problems or not.

Regards,
Marton