[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/4] lavfi/avfilter: simplify filter registration

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Tue Nov 28 22:23:58 EET 2017


On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 04:30:19AM +0000, Rostislav Pehlivanov wrote:
> Atomics were entirely pointless and did nothing but slow and complicate
> the process down. This could be improved further still but the main
> objective of this commit is to simplify.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker at gmail.com>
> ---
>  libavfilter/avfilter.c | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

*_register() can be called by the user app in a unsyncronized way
for example from a module like vlc used AFAIK.
or from libs loaded by an application which use libavfilter or other
internally.

These registration functions should stay thread safe


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