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