[vlc-devel] Blackmagic Decklink configuration, use WriteConfigurationToPreferences()

[Ed Groth]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Stuart Cunningham <stuart8c at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm not sure if it makes sense, really; would you really want running VLC to
>> change your defaults? (What if multiple instances of VLC were running?)
>> Is this behavior documented in the SDK, or is it simply a bug in the driver?
> It's unlikely you want VLC to change the default video and audio mode
> settings (the settings the card is configured with at boot time).
>
> The new behaviour is documented in the DeckLink 7.9 SDK documentation
> where the new feature of saving video and audio configuration across
> reboots was introduced.  The impact of the change is if you now use a
> IDeckLinkConfiguration object to change a mode and release it before
> you release the IDeckLink object, the changed configuration will be
> reverted to the previous saved configuration.  In this case the fix is
> to not release the IDeckLinkConfiguration until the IDeckLink is
> finished with.
>
> - Stuart

Here's a patch to keep track of the IDecklinkConfiguration in p_sys.

Still getting used to git, please let me know if the patch format is wrong.

  Ed

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