[FFmpeg-cvslog] r17863 - trunk/libavdevice/alsa-audio-common.c

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:35:16AM +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
> Ivo wrote:
> [...]
>>> What's the particular problem? Has alsa some problems with
>>> non-blocking output, is libavformat broken in this regard,
>>> or is it an application issue?
>>>
>>> Maybe it is a problem with a particular driver? I am using
>>> alsa playback right now, and it seems to work correctly:
>>> ffmpeg -re -i file.mp3 -f alsa hw
>> I forgot the -re option. With that, it works correctly. Well, at least I 
>> got to use git-bisect for the first time :)
>
> ;-)
>
>
>> Nevertheless, my fix might be the correct behaviour anyway, because the 
>> documentation says:
>> #define AVFMT_FLAG_NONBLOCK     0x0004 ///< Do not block when reading 
>> packets from input.
>> So it's an input-only flag, not an output flag.
>
> You are right; there is an inconsistency between behaviour and 
> documentation.
> However, I do not know if the error is in the documentation or in the 
> current
> behaviour; maybe Michael can comment on this (he is the one who asked for 
> the
> nonblocking behaviour).

id say setting AVFMT_FLAG_NONBLOCK for output has undefined behaviour
we could change that and define it in some sane way of course ...


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