[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/avcodec: Fix text implying single threaded decoding

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 06:43:07AM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc
> > wrote:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> > ---
> >  libavcodec/avcodec.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
> > index ee133712b5..2ac1523a36 100644
> > --- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
> > +++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
> > @@ -4960,7 +4960,7 @@ int avcodec_decode_subtitle2(AVCodecContext *avctx,
> > AVSubtitle *sub,
> >   *                  Unlike with older APIs, the packet is always fully
> > consumed,
> >   *                  and if it contains multiple frames (e.g. some audio
> > codecs),
> >   *                  will require you to call avcodec_receive_frame()
> > multiple
> > - *                  times afterwards before you can send a new packet.
> > + *                  times afterwards.
> 
> 
> Does/did this imply single-threaded decoding?

if you cannot send a new packet before you received the output of
the previous then the decoder has only one packet at a time and cannot
decode multiple in parallel.

ill add above to the commit message

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