[vlc-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fixing input/decoder/sout deadlock with chromecast

[Thomas Guillem]

Furthermore, this is the first release in 3 years. So maybe we missed some major issues that will be visible now. And maybe we'll have to  do some heavy changes to fix them. 

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018, at 20:39, Thomas Guillem wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018, at 19:13, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > Le maanantaina 12. helmikuuta 2018, 19.13.23 EET Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > A lot of users report that Chromecast is not working for their
> > > configuration. Indeed, some Chromecast devices need to be feed with one
> > > minute of data. Since VLC is buffering 300ms of data by default, you'll
> > > have to wait 59.7 sec to start playback on some chromecast devices.
> > 
> > On the one hand, that is a total non-issue if the input is not pacing, as VLC 
> > will happily fill the pipeline as fast as the output allows. On the other 
> > hand, it is fundamentally unfixable if the input is paced since you can go one 
> > minute into the future.
> > 
> > So I utterly fail the point in hacking the decoder and stream output.
> > 
> > And hacking the decoder thread in 3.0, not even funny. It is called "stable" 
> > branch for a reason.
> 
> That is the only proper way I found to fix an issue that will touch 
> every chromecast users. That is not funny but I thought this was more 
> important that this kind of concern. 
> 
> > 
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