Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] MR3319: evr: Leave critical section before waiting for streaming thread.

[Nikolay Sivov (＠nsivov)]

Nikolay Sivov (@nsivov) commented about dlls/evr/sample.c:
>  }
>
>  IMFSample_Release(sample);
> -
> - if (allocator->callback)
> -
>    IMFVideoSampleAllocatorNotify_NotifyRelease(allocator->callback);
> -
>
> callback = allocator->callback;
>
> LeaveCriticalSection(&allocator->cs);
> -
>
> if (callback)
> -
>    IMFVideoSampleAllocatorNotify_NotifyRelease(allocator->callback);
> -
>
> return S_OK;

This is public API, and NotifyRelease() is blocking on Windows. What I suggested was to create some customized version of this, just for internal use. For example conditionally, or with a different Invoke() method implementation, whatever looks better.