RFR: 8241629: [macos10.15] Long startup delay playing media over https on Catalina

Tue Apr 14 00:16:27 UTC 2020

On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 23:07:12 GMT, Alexander Matveev <almatvee at openjdk.org> wrote:

> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8241629
> 
> We used to link with system provided libffi (due to a bug in Makefile) and for some reason GLib signals did not work
> correctly and thus we did not able to build dynamic pipelines. We did not switch to AVFoundation until timeout is
> reached while waiting for GStreamer to start playing or report us an error. Fixed by linking GLib with libffi which we
> build, like we do for other platforms.

Looks good. I tested it on both 10.15.x (Catalina) and 10.13.x (High Sierra). I confirm that there is no more
dependency on the system libffi.

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Marked as reviewed by kcr (Lead).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jfx/pull/179