[FFmpeg-devel] Discussion related to the use of a global thread pool rather than the current threading model

[Derek Buitenhuis]

On 1/8/2016 6:55 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> We originally had configured AVCodecContext::thread_count to 0, which
> on the machines running the tests would end up creating 8 threads per
> decoder.
> On windows 32 bits, that would amount in thousand of threads being
> created for that particular test which would typically fail with OOM
> (Windows XP would fail to create more than 1380 threads).

FWIW, I have run into this on x64_64 Linux, on transcoding machines,
at work, as well.

This seems to be a rather contentious subject. Would you be amenable to
perhaps joining #ffmpeg-devel to discuss in real time? In my experience,
stuff gets cleared up a lot faster, and with few misunderstandings / large
mailing list flames/threads, for subjects like these, in such a setting.
That's just my 2 cents of course.

Cheers,

- Derek