[x264-devel] x264_encoder_reconfig and multithreading

[Adewale Adebusoye]

Hey, how do I remove the pthreads from the code and make it run like its
serial?
Regards

Ade

On Jan 25, 2008 6:12 AM, Loren Merritt <lorenm at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Benjamin Pracht wrote:
>
> > Playing a bit with x264_encoder_reconfig while multithreading is
> > enabled, I realized that this function only changes the parameters in
> > the main x264_t handle, which is equal to h->thread[0] if my
> > understanding is good. The consequence is that other threads still seem
> > to use the old parameters.
> >
> > Is that an expected behaviour, is x264_encoder_reconfig not supposed to
> > be used in multithreaded mode, or are you interested in a patch that
> > loops on all the available thread handles to change the parameters?
>
> Changing parameters asynchronously while the threads are running just
> sounds like a bad idea, even if it happens to work now.
> The correct way is to do the copying in x264_thread_sync_context.
>
> --Loren Merritt
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