[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/pthread_frame: update the main avctx from the current, ThreadContext

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 10:07:54AM +0200, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2022-08-02 16:19, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> > Why are you not resubmitting your original patch that stops copying
> > hwaccel_priv_data to the user-facing context?
> > 
> > It seemed more correct to me, since the user-facing context should never
> > see any hwaccel data. Or does it not fix the issue fully?
> 
> The original patch is not fixing it properly. With that patch and
> avcodec-threads > 1, the uninit of the hardware decoder is not called
> anymore. So it will replace a crash fix with a (big) resource leak.
> 
> For reference, this it the patch we're talking about
> https://www.mail-archive.com/ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org/msg94274.html

Should we maybe add something to the release notes if this bug is
unfixed in the next minor release ?

thx

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