[FFmpeg-devel] Network IO in FFmpeg (was: abstractable threading api)

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 01:04:01AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le nonidi 29 frimaire, an CCXXII, Nicolas George a écrit :
[...]
> Input-driven processing
> 
> If we have a thread, then we are notified as soon as data arrive on the
> socket. We could add an API to register a callback to forward the
> notification to the application immediately; the callback would have to be
> fast, of course.
> 
> This would be especially beneficial for protocols that use several
> underlying sockets: they all implement their own poll()-based stuff. It is
> an actual miracle that they work more or less reliably with that poll() and
> the UDP thread at the same time.

at least for build_udp_url() in rtpproto.c we disable the udp thread
because it does not work together


> 
> Input-driven processing with a callback would simplify greatly all that, and
> probably make it more efficient too.
> 
> (There is the small issue of getting it to work without threads too, but I
> believe it can be managed.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
>   Nicolas George



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