[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Switching ffmpeg.c to a threaded architecture

[Paul B Mahol]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 10:10 PM Soft Works <softworkz at hotmail.com> wrote:

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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> > Anton Khirnov
> > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:29 AM
> > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
> > devel at ffmpeg.org>
> > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Switching ffmpeg.c to a threaded
> > architecture
> >
> > Quoting Soft Works (2022-04-08 17:27:10)
> > > > Furthermore, remember that this is just the first step. There will
> > be
> > > > further patchsets converting the other components. I intend to
> > > > upstream
> > > > them gradually one after the other. Your suggestion would require
> > me
> > > > to
> > > > instead write the whole thing at once, fighting rebase conflicts
> > all
> > > > the
> > > > way, and then submit it as a giant utterly unreviewable patchset.
> > >
> > > That's not what I meant, but anyway it's not worth discussing when
> > > it's a minority opinion.
> > >
> > > Just a practical question instead for planning purposes:
> > >
> > > Which timeframe do you expect for the whole process?
> > > When do you plan to start
> >
> > If you mean "start pushing the patches", then I intend to do that as
> > they are reviewed and approved. I hope to send the upstreamable
> > version
> > of this set this week, if nobody has strong objectsions then I might
> > push it after vacation, i.e. late April/early May.
> >
> > > and for how long do you think it will take until all further
> > patchsets
> > > will be submitted/applied?
> >
> > This is very hard to estimate accurately. A pessimistic guess assuming
> > I
> > get stuck on every stupid thing would be end of this year, but I hope
> > for things to go much faster.
>
> Thanks for the reply. I'm asking because I need to decide about the
> way I'm going to proceed with the subtitle filtering patchset.
>
> I think I will have to keep and continue this in private during this
> procedure as I don't have the resources to regularly adapt and sync
> from my (5.0 based) working branch back to the master branch.
>
>
That is big waste of resource when not implementing thing properly.


> Thanks,
> softworkz
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