[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] handle EAGAIN case in ffmpeg.c

[Luca Abeni]

Hi,

Ramiro Polla wrote:
[...]
> The best thing IMO is to make realtime grabbing in separate threads.

This can be true for some grabbing interfaces. But if you use v4l2 a 
single thread can do the work (as a matter of fact, ffmpeg is perfectly 
able to grab v4l2 video and oss audio, with perfect A/V synch). The 
trick is that v4l2 provides a timestamp for each captured frame (so, if 
ffmpeg blocks while reading another input - for example the audio - and 
reads a frame "too late", it can still know when the frame was sampled, 
and can synchronize it with the audio). The "old" v4l can also work in a 
single-threaded environment, but that is trickier (relies on 
non-blocking audio input, and A/V synch is more fragile).


> It requires many changes in ffmpeg though. It's been suggested to make 
> libavgrab [2], and I'm working on this too.

I suspect libavgrab is a separate issue respect to this one (it is 
already possible to capture audio and video in different threads by 
using the current libavformat - I did it some time ago in a simple 
application I developed, and it worked without big problems)

Anyway, if you are working on libavgrab I'd like to know some details 
about it (mainly, how it will look like - is it a simple split of all 
the "grabbing" inputs from libaformat, or are you implementing a 
different API / structure?). I still have my ALSA input and output 
formats somewhere, and I'd like to have them included in libavgrab...


			Thanks,
				Luca