[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Audio Video Filtering using threads & semaphores

[Manjunath Siddaiah]

Ok, semaphores are replaced by POSIX mutexes and condition variables.
This time only changes are in ffmpeg.c and 
no configure file changes and remains the same.

Manjunath

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From: ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org [mailto:ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas George
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 3:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Audio Video Filtering using threads & semaphores

Le duodi 2 messidor, an CCXX, Manjunath Siddaiah a écrit :
> I could avoid semaphores, if threads are created for every decoded 
> frame and join the threads soon after filtering that decoded frame. 
> For this there will be overhead for calling thread_create function for 
> every decoded frame.
> 
> Instead created threads during "transcode_init" function and join the 
> threads while exiting the transcode. For this scenario, race 
> conditions are avoided using semaphores.

To avoid race conditions using POSIX threads, there are POSIX mutexes and conditions. They are an API designed along with the rest of the threading API and widely implemented.

Semaphores are an IPC API, and thus more expensive. They also are only an optional part of the Unix standard, and as such missing from some systems where POSIX threads are fully implemented.

Regards,

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  Nicolas George
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