[vlc-devel] Video XP bug on VLC 1.2

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 03:32:12PM +0100, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 02:27:51 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
> wrote:
> > Patches and cool ideas are welcome.
> 
> Pragmatically, the best option consists of removing -mt support on
> Windows. Moreover, the would-be bug in libavcodec thread wrappers on
> Windows XP should affect other Windows versions too. Maybe it is just not
> as frequent due to pure timing luck.

What I could suggest too is to introduce the winpthread in contribs,
patch it as necessary to build with mingw/debian mingw/msys as I did,
later this night, and use that until libavcodec-mt is fixed upstream wrt
win32threads.

Best regards,

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