[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Avcodec: limit the number of threads automatically selected to 12

[Denis Charmet]

Le mercredi 28 décembre 2011 à 11:59:49, Rafaël Carré a écrit :
> Le 2011-12-28 21:08, Jean-Baptiste Kempf a écrit :
> > It seems that over 16 doesn't behave well. Reduce it further for safety
> 
> What is the problem exactly ?
> 
IMO, as I said earlier I strongly suspect a race condition in picture
pool with two threads working on the same picture. Would'nt it be
cleaner and safer to just lock/unlock around decoder_NewPicture in
avcodec/video.c ?

Regards,

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