[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] Closed Captions: spawn a decoder thread

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 09 Sep, Devin Heitmueller wrote :
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> > On 09 Sep, Rafaël Carré wrote :
> >> vlc | branch: master | Rafaël Carré <funman at videolan.org> | Mon Sep  9 14:23:12 2013 +0200| [cac5ac7d0aba83dfabf3ce3e11ec7adc7cfb4e45] | committer: Rafaël Carré
> >>
> >> Closed Captions: spawn a decoder thread
> >>
> >> We can't keep the cc decoder serialized with video decoder.
> >> If the decoding delay between packetizer and video decoder is bigger
> >> than caching (for example when using multi threaded decoder), we will
> >> be too late for the next picture display while we wait for the right
> >> rendering time for the CC.
> >>
> >> Close #9049
> 
> Oh wow, I've done a rather large set of changes to improve the
> performance so it wouldn't need to be on its own thread (targeted at
> certain low end AMD and Intel Atom platforms).  I guess I'll go back
> and see if some of the uglier changes can be dropped from that patch
> series before submitting it.

Improving performance is always nice :)

Maybe 2 series: one clean and one ugly one?

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