Mailing List Archive: MPEG-4 trouble on SMP

MPEG-4 trouble on SMP

Oct 31, 2002, 7:40 PM

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> If you guys with dualies could update to current CVS, edit settings.pro
and
> uncomment the EXTRA_LOCKING line, recompile, etc, etc, and let me know if
> that helps things at all, I'd appreciate it.
>
> Isaac

Thanks! Works great - no more artifacts...

Samitt

Re: MPEG-4 trouble on SMP [ In reply to ]

ijr at po

Oct 31, 2002, 9:32 PM

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On Thursday 31 October 2002 09:40 pm, Samit Basu wrote:
> > uncomment the EXTRA_LOCKING line, recompile, etc, etc, and let me know if
> > that helps things at all, I'd appreciate it.
> >
> > Isaac
>
> Thanks! Works great - no more artifacts...

Blah. So, it's definately a thread-safety issue in libavcodec -- all that
that did was put big ugly global locks around all encode/decode calls.

Isaac