[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavd: Use av_gettime_relative()

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 09:29:23AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le tridi 23 floréal, an CCXXII, Olivier Langlois a écrit :
> > Whenever av_gettime() is used to measure relative period of time,
> > av_gettime_relative() is prefered as it guarantee monotonic time
> > on supported platforms.
> > 
> > Since v4l2 is compiled only on Linux where av_gettime_relative()
> > is monotonic, a small wrapper function av_gettime_monotonic() is used
> > (should be inlined the compiler) to put emphasis on that fact.
> 
> Since you leave the #if logic present, the clock is really monotonic, there
> is really no doubt about it (except if broken on purpose). But the
> explanations do no harm.
> 
> At a later point, I intend to rework that code to make better use of your
> new API (use av_gettime_is_monotonic() and drop the #if logic; possibly make
> the code usable by other devices).
> 

> But for now this patch looks plenty good enough to me.

ok, applied

thx

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