[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Tries to fix possible deadlock in libavcodec.

[Hans-Kristian Arntzen]

  Using the latest git version, VLC would always hang when seeking in a 
video containing H.264 video. The UI would be functional, but to kill 
the application I had to resort to kill -9. It seems that VLC now 
supports multithreaded operation in libavcodec. (I have ffmpeg-mt). It 
worked just fine in 1.1.2.

I found that it would always hang in a certain wait() call in 
modules/codec/avcodec/video.c, and commenting this one out made seeking 
working again. Problem is that I have no idea why this worked.


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