On 11.03.2015, at 12:34, wm4 <nfx...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 18:02:12 +0100 > Reimar Döffinger <reimar.doeffin...@gmx.de> wrote: >>>> Also the buffering issue is the other way, when you try to go from >>>> multithreading to HW decode, how do you handle that? >>>> If it works well I'd be totally in favour, but I strongly suspect it only >>>> works because you both got lucky and don't even try the hard things and >>>> still need more code on the user side. >>> >>> Just create a new context. >> >> There is nothing "just" about creating a new context, not for those who want >> seamless switching between hardware and software decoding. >> I am not one of those people admittedly, but I do see it as an issue. > > Then lavc should provide a proper mechanism for this. > > The get_format thing doesn't work if the hardware decoder and the > software decoder are different AVCodecs. No disagreement here. That doesn't make any of the not working suggestions a solution though, and I don't find it appropriate to "attack" (ok, a bit exaggerated) people trying to make the code we have work for them. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
