[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] build: fix make checkheaders in out-of-tree builds

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 01:46:50PM -0800, Timothy Gu wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:21:14PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> > 
> > That's not very reasonable.
> > Other changes also broke things that worked before.
> > For example before commit 94c20de one could build ffmpeg with x265 version
> > X265_BUILD 17, and afterwards it requires at least X265_BUILD 57.
> 
> That effect is well-known during the review stage, and has been approved by
> the community.
> 
> The side effect of your commit, namely, that it will break MSVC, was NOT known
> during the review stage (if there was one) of your patches.
> 
> > 
> > That's also a regression, but the workaround is to use a newer x265 version.
> 
> Well-thought out and approved-by-community regressions are not regressions
> that need to be "fixed."
> 

> This argument also applies to the hwaccel situation: the community is aware of
> VLC's using MT during review and with that awareness the patch is passed.

hmm

Btw, did someone benchmark the MT+hwaccel vs hwaccel minus MT case ?
on a system where it works well enough to allow benchmarking ?

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