[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/4] avutil/cuda_check: propagate AVERROR_UNRECOVERABLE when needed

[Soft Works]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> James Almer
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 2:31 PM
> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/4] avutil/cuda_check: propagate
> AVERROR_UNRECOVERABLE when needed
> 
> On 11/22/2022 10:21 AM, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
> > On 22/11/2022 14:07, James Almer wrote:
> >> Based on a patch by Soft Works.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>   libavutil/cuda_check.h | 4 ++++
> >>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/libavutil/cuda_check.h b/libavutil/cuda_check.h
> >> index f5a9234eaf..33aaf9c098 100644
> >> --- a/libavutil/cuda_check.h
> >> +++ b/libavutil/cuda_check.h
> >> @@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ static inline int ff_cuda_check(void *avctx,
> >>           av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_ERROR, " -> %s: %s", err_name,
> >> err_string);
> >>       av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_ERROR, "\n");
> >> +    // Not recoverable
> >> +    if (err == CUDA_ERROR_UNKNOWN)
> >> +        return AVERROR_UNRECOVERABLE;
> >
> > Why does specifically CUDA_ERROR_UNKNOWN get mapped to
> unrecoverable?
> 
> It's the code that Soft Works found out was returned repeatedly no
> matter how many packets you fed to the encoder, which meant it was
> stuck
> in an unrecoverable state. See
> http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2021-October/287153.html
> 
> If you know of cases where this error could be returned in valid
> recoverable scenarios that are not already handled in some other way,
> what do you suggest could be done?

Thanks James, for picking this up!

All I can say is that my original patch is deployed to a quite a
number of systems and there hasn't been any case where this 
would have had an adverse effect.

I hadn't reported this to Nvidia because a solution was needed
and it was an erroneous file, so the best they could 
have probably done was to return a different error code ;-)

softworkz