[Libav-user] multithreaded problems

[John Stebbins]

On 11/09/2011 10:06 AM, Karoly Horvath wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have multiple threads which do simultaneous demultiplexing for different streams.
>
> Most of the times it works fine, but sometimes a see these messages at startup:
> [NULL @ 0x7fffa4006120] insufficient thread locking around avcodec_open/close()
> Also it sometimes fails to do avcodec_open (it's the same stream, nothing changed..)
>
> I have a global mutex for the threads so at any point only one thread can make those API calls.
>
> Any idea what the problem is?
>
>

Contrary to what the error message says avcodec_open/close are not the only Libav API calls
that need lock protection.  So if you are making other calls into Libav that are not protected
by your global mutex, this could cause the issue.

As the other poster said, using av_lockmgr_register() will allow Libav to create any locks it
needs and it will do all necessary locking for itself.  So you should use this anyway.

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