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This is just a lot of complicated and confusing code that had no purpose anymore. Also, the functions return values were checked only sometimes. Locking shouldn't fail anyway, so remove the return values. Barely any other pthread lock calls check the return value (including more important code that is more likely to fail horribly if locking fails). It could be argued that it might be helpful in some debugging situations, or when the user built FFmpeg without thread support against all good advice. But there are dummy atomics too, so the atomic check won't help with ensuring correctness absolutely. You gain very little. Also, for debugging, you can just raise the ASSERT_LEVEL, and then libavutil/thread.h will redefine the locking functions to explicitly check the return values.
FFmpeg README
FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
Libraries
libavcodecprovides implementation of a wider range of codecs.libavformatimplements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.libavutilincludes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.libavfilterprovides a mean to alter decoded Audio and Video through chain of filters.libavdeviceprovides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.libswresampleimplements audio mixing and resampling routines.libswscaleimplements color conversion and scaling routines.
Tools
- ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
- ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
- ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
- ffserver is a multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts.
- Additional small tools such as
aviocat,ismindexandqt-faststart.
Documentation
The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.
The online documentation is available in the main website and in the wiki.
Examples
Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.
License
FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.
Contributing
Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using
git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be
avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.