[vlc-devel] Video XP bug on VLC 1.2

[Laurent Aimar]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 03:35:08PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> 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.

 Btw, I haven't updated ffmpeg in some time, but on my PC on linux, I also
experience deadlock (on slightly corrupted streams like H264 TS coming
from DVB-T) with ffmpeg-mt.
 Am I the only one?

Regards,

-- 
fenrir