[Ffmpeg-devel] Stream file handle hijacking by another thread

[Måns Rullgård]

"Stas Oskin" <stas.oskin at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi.
>
>> If you get this you obviously have not.
>> You get this message only if the sum of threads executing one of either
>> avcodec_open or avcodec_close is > 1.
>
> Apparently you were right - the high-level threading library I'm using
> (GNU Common C++ 2) has issues with mutex locking. On short testing
> app, with detection mechanism similar to libavcodec, it clearly failed
> to lock some of code critical sections.
>
> I would never think in this direction, if libavcodec and you hadn't
> poke my nose there...
>
> About the solution for this, is anyone familiar with good and reliable
> high level threading library? Something like Boost::Threads but more
> light and easy to use?

pthreads

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