detecting a timeout in ffmpeg
Solution 1
Found in the ffmpeg documentation:
During blocking operations, callback is called with opaque as parameter. If the callback returns 1, the blocking operation will be aborted.
Here is declaration int_cb variable of type AVIOInterruptCB struct from your code:
static const libffmpeg::AVIOInterruptCB int_cb = { interrupt_cb, NULL };
You declared opaque parameter as NULL
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I'd recommend to rewrite initialization code like this:
AVFormatContext* formatContext = libffmpeg::avformat_alloc_context( );
formatContext->interrupt_callback.callback = interrupt_cb;
formatContext->interrupt_callback.opaque = formatContext;
you will be able to access formatContext instance inside interrupt_cb
:
static int interrupt_cb(void *ctx)
{
AVFormatContext* formatContext = reinterpret_cast<AVFormatContext*>(ctx);
// do something
return 0;
}
Solution 2
you can pass not only AVFormatContext* formatContext, but any other usefull pointer to some instance, which contains usefull data to determine, which thread timed out
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Sean
Updated on September 16, 2022Comments
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Sean over 1 year
I am writing some software that uses ffmpeg extensively and it is multi threaded, with multiple class instances.
If the network connection drops out ffmpeg hangs on reading. I found a method to assign a callback that ffmpeg fires periodically to check if it should abort or not:
static int interrupt_cb(void *ctx) { // do something return 0; } static const libffmpeg::AVIOInterruptCB int_cb = { interrupt_cb, NULL };
...
AVFormatContext* formatContext = libffmpeg::avformat_alloc_context( ); formatContext->interrupt_callback = int_cb; if ( libffmpeg::avformat_open_input( &formatContext, fileName, NULL, NULL ) !=0 ) {...}
This is all fine but nowhere on the web can i find what *ctx contains and how to determine whether the callback should return 1 or 0. I can't assign a static "abort" flag as the class has many instances. I also can't debug the code as for some reason visual studio refuses to set a breakpoint on the return 0; line, claiming no executable code is associated with the location. Any ideas?
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Sean almost 12 yearsOK brilliant, thanks! With access to the formatContext how do I then detect that the stream has timed out?