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    omxil: Use vlc_cond_timedwait when waiting for free input buffers · bbf8c217
    Martin Storsjö authored
    The structure of the decode functions are like this:
    
    Decode() {
        if (got output buffer) {
            consume output buffer;
        }
        wait for input buffer;
        if (got input buffer) {
            fill input buffer and send to the codec;
        }
    }
    
    This makes the functions prone to deadlock, if all input buffers
    have been consumed and won't be returned by the codec until we
    consume some of the output buffers (and we don't get the output
    buffers until we already are waiting for an input buffer).
    
    By using a timeout in the wait for input buffers, we get out of the
    deadlock and can consume an output buffer, allowing the codec to
    proceed. By making the timeout relatively large, it won't trigger
    during normal decoding, but gets us out of possible deadlocks
    (noticed at startup with qualcomm audio decoders).
    
    The alternative to timeouts would be to push dummy/sentinel buffers
    into the fifo (as we already do at reconfiguration) each time we
    receive an output buffer. This would add quite a bit of overhead
    though, having to process (and skip) one item in the input buffer
    fifo for each received output buffer.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
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