Re: [libdv-dev] [PATCH] Encoding video in threaded applications

[Johannes S. <joh...@te...>]

On Montag, 5. Juli 2004 18:04, Dan Dennedy wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 04:31, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > To test the current implementation I have used the attached test program.
> > See the comments at the top about compilation and usage. It writes the
> > encoded raw DV frames (which should be all gray) to stdout. You will see
> > (eg. in kino) that the encoded frames are not gray at all if the frames
> > are encoded in parallel, but they are if encoded sequentially.
>
> I applied your patch in CVS and added your test program too. When I run
> the test program in parallel mode without the mutex locks, I am seeing
> nice clean, gray images. I do not deny your results, but I am curious.

I've run the test program on a 4-CPU machine (Dual-Xeon + hyperthreading). 
Maybe that makes the difference?

Anyway, thanks for applying the patch.

-- Hannes