[FFmpeg-cvslog] avfilter: Compile FIFO filters unconditionally

Alexander Strasser eclipse7 at gmx.net
Tue Dec 25 00:51:41 CET 2012


Nicolas George wrote:
> Le quartidi 4 nivôse, an CCXXI, Alexander Strasser a écrit :
> >   Just curious if anyone knows what is the usefulness of this commit?
> > 
> >   The commit message doesn't really tell and I can't see any real
> > advantage from the code changes themselves.
> 
> For them, a lot: a lot of their filters can not deal with filter_frames at a
> random time, and therefore need a FIFO filter before them to handle things
> for them. That also means it is ridiculously easy to get avconv to eat all
> available memory.
> 
> For ffmpeg, nothing useful, except for using the few filters coming from
> them that have the problem (git grep needs_fifo).

  I see. Thanks for explaining. 

  Alexander


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