[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] h264: don't touch H264Context->ref_count[] during MB decoding.

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 04:25:14PM -0700, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> From: "Ronald S. Bultje" <rsbultje at gmail.com>
> 
> The variable is copied to subsequent threads at the same time, so this
> may cause wrong ref_count[] values to be copied to subsequent threads.
> 
> This bug was found using TSAN.
> ---
>  libavcodec/h264_cabac.c |   41 ++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  libavcodec/h264_cavlc.c |   33 +++++++++++++--------------------
>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)

It appears different patches where commited to libav and ffmpeg.
ronald, can you look into fixing that ?

it would make future work harder for everyone if things diverge
pointlessly

Thanks

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