[vlc-devel] [PATCH] patches applied to VLC

Sébastien Escudier sebastien-devel at celeos.eu
Wed Nov 16 09:22:32 CET 2011


On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 03:26 +0800, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> Note, for example, patch 1, about "inet_ntoa()" not being thread safe.
> While that's true, it's not important for LIVE555 and VLC because (1)
> we use our own version of this function, with our own name, and (2)
> LIVE555 code is not accessed by more than one thread in VLC at all (at
> least, it shouldn't be).

FYI, Vlc can open multiple inputs (including rtsp) with one instance. In
this case, the library is accessed by more than one thread (and it works
very well).





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