FFmpeg Becomes Multi-Threaded Happy

[Xake]

ROTFL, i especially like Michael's

Tue Mar 22 20:09:06 CET 2011
If a majority of ffmpeg devels want us to undo this, i am not opposed
if someone handles the technical side and also explains users how to
fix their checkouts up
.....
But as I said previously ffmpeg is a democratic project, ffmpeg
developers who plan to contribute to ffmpeg in the future and thus
are affected by how the main tree looks can vote"

then 2.20 minutes and 4 votes later

" Tue Mar 22 22:28:44 CET 2011
Good these are enough votes

We will undo"

i guess those "developers who plan to contribute to ffmpeg in the future"he's so desperate to recruit now where to slow

And if you had actually read why it was undone you would have seen that it was not because of "naysayers" or because of people not wanting -mt. It was because of the whole merge broke history, because the ffmpeg-mt branch seems to have messed up history. I think this will be re-emerge as soon as ffmpeg-mt has a sorted out history.

If this was the Linux-kernel this would never have been merged in the first place, Linus has blocked DRM-pulls before, and at least once with a big lecture of the evilness of "git reset".

[Francesco Cosoleto]

The multi-threading appears to have been unmerged, based on the postings in that thread linked in the article: http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-d...ch/109952.html

I think this will be re-emerge as soon as ffmpeg-mt has a sorted out history.

It wasn't really unmerged, just the history was removed and replaced with this:

commit d375c1040032ed42f84b7d4ea53baad4a661b628
Author: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Date: Tue Mar 22 22:36:57 2011 +0100

Fake-Merge remote-tracking branch 'ffmpeg-mt/master'

[Xake]

It wasn't really unmerged, just the history was removed and replaced with this:

commit d375c1040032ed42f84b7d4ea53baad4a661b628
Author: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Date: Tue Mar 22 22:36:57 2011 +0100

Fake-Merge remote-tracking branch 'ffmpeg-mt/master'

Yeah, seems like they found a better way to fix it.