[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH][DISCUSS] nvenc: Add encoder flush API.

[Josh Allmann]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 15:36, Philip Langdale <philipl at overt.org> wrote:
>
> On 2019-11-18 17:13, Josh Allmann wrote:
> > This patch is meant to be an entry point for discussion around an
> > issue we are having with flushing the nvenc encoder while doing
> > segmented transcoding. Hopefully there will be a less kludgey
> > workaround than this.
>
> Hi Josh,
>
> I happened to see your email recently, and took a quick look into
> this. It seems that encoders are allowed to implement .flush() and
> then avcodec_flush_buffers() can be called on them like on a
> decoder. So I've posted a patch that does this (with the same impl
> that you had). If that works for you, then that's all it takes -
> no need for a new API call because there's already one you can use.

That would be perfect - thought .flush() was decode-only for some
reason. Thank you!

Josh