[FFmpeg-devel] Race conditions in libavcodec/pthread.c

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de
Thu Aug 25 23:40:33 CEST 2011


On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:28:17AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 11:26 -0700, Aaron Colwell wrote:
> > Some recent changes to Chromium unit tests have caused FFmpeg decoding to
> > get regularly scrutinized by our
> > ThreadSanitizer<http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/using-valgrind/threadsanitizer>
> > tool.
> 
> > 3. Who is the expert on libavcodec/pthread.c so I can direct questions to
> > them?
> 
> > 6. Is someone else interested in tackling this?
> 
> Threaded decoding has been developed primarily in the Libav project and
> has been merged to FFmpeg from there

Huh? The code has been merged from FFmpeg-mt directly, not from Libav originally.
I didn't keep track of what happened then or which lists the main author
of that code now follows.


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