[vlc-devel] [PATCH] avcodec: allow hardware decoding with multithread for FFmpeg

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 27 Jul, Steve Lhomme wrote :
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> > Le keskiviikkona 27. heinäkuuta 2016, 16.43.26 EEST Steve Lhomme a écrit :
> >> The context is protected by a mutex.
> >
> > What is protected by a mutex? The VLC state is not the problem here.
> >
> > FFmpeg developers say hardware acceleration with threaded decoding is not
> > supported, especially not on Windows. In fact, I reckon Windows is the primary
> > motivation for not supporting it. Depending on FFmpeg version, it either fails
> > or prints a stern warning.
> 
> Working fine on all the UWP builds we've been doing for a while where
> this patch is already applied.
> 
> Who's the authority at FFmpeg on this ?

nevcairiel and michaelni

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