[x265] xp support

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello.  I noticed in a recent discussion that seemingly windows xp
>> support had been "dropped" to clean up code:
>>
>> http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/357754-%5BHEVC%5D-x265-EXE-mingw-builds?goto=newpost
>
> I would describe the situation more as we needed to use a
> synchronization primitive (condition variable) in order to prevent
> deadlocks and that primitive is not supported on XP.  This wasn't a
> code cleanup, it was fixing a serious race hazard.

x264 supports condition variables on XP just fine.

Jason