Hello,
I have a newbie question regarding libev and threads. I'm implementing
simple video server. It should receive some requests from another
applications and then perform for example video capturing and encoding.
Initial implementation of a server listening to socket is very easy using
available libev examples. So no I have a main loop and a callback function
which parses the command received through socket and calling particular
functions.
static void socket_cb(EV_P_ ev_io *w, int revents)
{
int sock;
VS_cmd cmd;
int ret;
sock = w->fd;
ret = recv(sock, &cmd, sizeof(cmd), 0);
switch (cmd.type) {
case VS_REC_VIDEO:
record_video_file(&cmd.arg.video_request);
break;
case VS_SET_FORMAT:
set_video_format(&cmd.arg.format);
break;
case VS_SET_FPS:
set_video_rate(&cmd.arg.time_base);
break;
case VS_RECODE:
video_recode("test.mkv", "testr.mkv");
break;
default:
printf("unknown command\n");
break;
}
}
int main(int argc, char *argp[])
{
int sock;
struct ev_loop *loop;
ev_io socket_watcher;
sock = start_server(6001);
if (sock < 0) {
exit(1);
}
loop = EV_DEFAULT;
ev_io_init(&socket_watcher, socket_cb, sock, EV_READ);
ev_io_start(loop, &socket_watcher);
video_init();
ev_run(loop, 0);
video_exit();
return 0;
}
In case of the video capturing this can take really long time. My function
video_capture(...) creates three threads (one for capturing, one for
encoding and one for writing to a disc) and can record e.g. 60 secs of a
video. And here is my question: how should I start this function in a
separate thread (to allow the callback to return) and how to signal this
thread termination to libev mainloop. I'm fairly new to this type of
programming so excuse me if it is not a libev issue and I should to that
in some another way. But I'd like to be for example to handle a situation
when the video recording is enabled and a client should have a chance to
prolong the video.
best regards
Jan
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