[FFmpeg-soc] How is everyone progressing?

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 12:19:41AM -0400, Alexander Strange wrote:
> 
> On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Robert Swain wrote:
> 
> > Hello GSoCers,
> >
> > I was wondering how everyone was progressing on their tasks. Here is
> > the list of people and what I perceive as their status:
> >
> > Multi-threaded decoding - Alexander - Active - Still working on h.264
> > but it is performing well.
> 
> >
> > Please respond to this mail commenting on your (or your student's)
> > progress so we can all see what's going on.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Rob
> 
> Progressive H.264 is done and working, but PAFF is currently broken.  
> I'll have that fixed as soon as lu_zero can update his mainline git  
> mirror.
> 
> Right now I'm working on slice+frame threading, and then I'll do  
> encoding. I was really expecting to be closer to finished by now, so  
> I'll try to get basic stuff finished first - I don't want it sitting  
> around unmergeable forever. Any more codecs we want converted can be  
> done later, or the maintainer can do it themselves if I write good  
> enough documentation.
> 
> One thing I'm not sure about is all the other thread stuff - I could  
> get rid of some duplicate code if we dropped support for non-pthreads.  
> All the other OSes have pthread emulation libraries that are probably  
> better maintained than our os2/w32/bethreads, and I can't test or  

If you can simplify code by droping them then do so, the respective
maintainers can update them later to whaever new API ...
What iam against though is pthread code outside pthread.c, it should stay
there and it should be possible to implement what is in pthread.c on other
thread systems.

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