avcodec/mediacodecdec: add delay_flush option

The default behavior of the mediacodec decoder before this commit
was to delay flushes until all pending hardware frames were
returned to the decoder. This was useful for certain types of
applications, but was unexpected behavior for others.

The new default behavior with this commit is now to execute
flushes immediately to invalidate all pending frames. The old
behavior can be enabled by setting delay_flush=1.

With the new behavior, video players implementing seek can simply
call flush on the decoder without having to worry about whether
they have one or more mediacodec frames still buffered in their
rendering pipeline. Previously, all these frames had to be
explictly freed (or rendered) before the seek/flush would execute.

The new behavior matches the behavior of all other lavc decoders,
reducing the amount of special casing required when using the
mediacodec decoder.

Signed-off-by: Aman Gupta <aman@tmm1.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Bouron <matthieu.bouron@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libavcodec/mediacodec.c b/libavcodec/mediacodec.c
index d492eef..bf1b747 100644
--- a/libavcodec/mediacodec.c
+++ b/libavcodec/mediacodec.c
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ int av_mediacodec_release_buffer(AVMediaCodecBuffer *buffer, int render)
     MediaCodecDecContext *ctx = buffer->ctx;
     int released = atomic_fetch_add(&buffer->released, 1);
 
-    if (!released) {
+    if (!released && (ctx->delay_flush || buffer->serial == atomic_load(&ctx->serial))) {
         return ff_AMediaCodec_releaseOutputBuffer(ctx->codec, buffer->index, render);
     }