[MPlayer-dev-eng] opinion on threads

[David Holm]

Arpi wrote:

>Hi,
>
>>Hi,
>>I know your opinion on using threads in mplayer is not to use them, but 
>>may I use it in my ao_dxr3 and vo_dxr3 to solve some temporary (major) 
>>bugs? As soon as I can locate these bugs (they are in the em8300 drivers 
>>and I'm not too familiar with that code since it's not mine, so it's 
>>going slow and people are asking me when I'm gonna get audio output to 
>>work).
>>
>
>i think it will make your life more difficult, as mplayer isn't ready for
>threads. but do it if you think it helps. but dxr3 only!
>
>btw do you have any sample prog which plays real mpeg-ps stream on the dxr3
>with audio? like test_av.c for dvb?
>
>maybe you should try -vo mpegpes (compiled WITHOUT dvb support) to write
>mpeg file and the send this file to the card.
>
>
>A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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I've been talking alot with Kuroyi, the current maintainer of the dxr3 
driver. He told me he had exactly the same problem with xine, he solved 
it by threading xine. It's very likely the dxr3 card has a blocking 
threshold which is lower than the buffersize, we are working on figuring 
out how to fetch it... The reverse engineering of the card isn't perfect 
and creative can't provide docs since it isn't their card in the first 
place and uses patented stuff =(

//David Holm