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Niklas Haas 9e3030bc44 fftools/ffmpeg_filter: close all no-longer needed inputs
Currently, the thread loop of ffmpeg_filter essentially works like this:

while (1) {
    frame, idx = get_from_decoder();
    err = send_to_filter_graph(frame);
    if (err) { // i.e. EOF
        close_input(idx);
        continue;
    }

    while (filtered_frame = get_filtered_frame())
        send_to_encoder(filtered_frame);
}

The exact details are not 100% correct since the actual control flow is a bit
more complicated as a result of the scheduler, but this is the general flow.

Notably, this leaves the possibility of leaving a no-longer-needed input
permanently open if the filter graph starts producing infinite frames (during
the second loop) *after* it finishes reading from an input, e.g. in a filter
graph like -af atrim,apad.

This patch avoids this issue by always querying the status of all filter graph
inputs and explicitly closing any that were closed downstream; after each round
of reading output frames. As a result, information about the filtergraph being
closed can now propagate back upstream, even if the filter is no longer
requesting any input frames (i.e. input_idx == fg->nb_inputs).

Fixes: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/11061
See-Also: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/20457#issuecomment-6208

Backported-from: 38a5fcc02c

During backporting, I had to change the signature of `close_input()` to
`void close_input(FilterGraph *fg, int input_idx)` since this version of
FFmpeg does not contain a reference to the input index in the InputFilterPriv.
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