They add considerable complexity to frame-threading implementation,
which includes an unavoidably leaking error path, while the advantages
of this option to the users are highly dubious.
It should be always possible and desirable for the callers to make their
get_buffer2() implementation thread-safe, so deprecate this option.
The current design, where
- proper init is called for the first per-thread context
- first thread's private data is copied into private data for all the
other threads
- a "fixup" function is called for all the other threads to e.g.
allocate dynamically allocated data
is very fragile and hard to follow, so it is abandoned. Instead, the
same init function is used to init each per-thread context. Where
necessary, AVCodecInternal.is_copy can be used to differentiate between
the first thread and the other ones (e.g. for decoding the extradata
just once).
Anton Khirnov
Michael Niedermayer
Janne Grunau
Alexander Strange