[x265] x265 0.8+247 (new XP compat.) crashes in single thread mode

[Steve Borho]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Mario Rohkrämer <contact at ligh.de> wrote:
> I tested a bit in a VirtualBox and found that v0.8+149 (last XP compatible
> build before introducing the new threading model) works on an Unicore CPU in
> Windows XP SP3, but 0.8+247 (one 32 bit build which compiles in MSYS with
> WINXP_SUPPORT enabled again) reports disabled parallelism and using single
> thread mode, but then crashes when starting to encode. Setting the virtual
> machine to have at least 2 cores, encoding starts.
>
> But well ... noone should want to work in single thread mode; version
> 0.8+149 worked with less than 1 fps in preset ultrafast with a 640x272
> video.

The vbv restart patch busted --no-wpp; a fix has been pushed.  I'll
address the MinGW build issue in a short bit.

-- 
Steve Borho