1069443 - Avoid/minimize MediaCodec errors (-38) while reconfiguring the H.264 OMX encoder

Status: NEW

(Core :: WebRTC: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

From bug 1067437:

(In reply to Jay from comment #21)
> I see that DrainOutput() just returns without doing anything once it sees
> error condition so it should not impact the functionality. However, ideally,
> the DrainOutput() thread should be stopped while codec re-configuring is
> taking place. Can this be done easily?

Not too hard though one must be careful with multithreaded/locked code; likely just wait on a monitor if a new state variable (mPaused) is true.  Gotta be careful we don't miss transitions from Paused to Ending, etc.  A new bug; since there's no negative impact other than some CPU and logs in a rare-ish case this can get done later.

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1067437 +++