Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] fftools/ffmpeg and libavdevice/sdl issue

From: Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] fftools/ffmpeg and libavdevice/sdl issue
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:02:15 +0100
Message-ID: <ZYClR4ll+inNHxPU@phare.normalesup.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231218195839.GX6420@pb2>

[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 920 bytes --]

Michael Niedermayer (12023-12-18):
> I think the first question is, does this actually need
> "massive hacks in ffmpeg CLI" ?

Thank you for bringing some sanity.

> If you ignore the recommandition that SDL should be run from the main
> thread then iam not sure what change would be needed in ffmpeg CLI at all.

I must say, I am very dubious about the statement. It is probably an
over-simplification for “in the same thread” with caveats.

> The last option would maybe be to run some sort of AVExecutor on the
> main thread and allow things like muxers to que operations on it.
> The  muxers would totally unchanged be running on a random thread
> but que some operation on the main thread if an external lib, driver or
> other needs it.
> Naively that feels relatively clean to me

Of course. Having that kind of mechanism is obviously necessary anyway.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

[-- Attachment #1.2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 833 bytes --]

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 251 bytes --]

_______________________________________________
ffmpeg-devel mailing list
ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org
https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel

To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email
ffmpeg-devel-request@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".