Don't start thread in constructor. (Writer)

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/transcoder.cc b/src/lib/transcoder.cc
index 27e35ac52..4e8932268 100644
--- a/src/lib/transcoder.cc
+++ b/src/lib/transcoder.cc
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Transcoder::Transcoder (shared_ptr<const Film> film, shared_ptr<Job> j)
 void
 Transcoder::go ()
 {
+	_writer->start ();
 	_encoder->begin ();
 
 	DCPTime const frame = DCPTime::from_frames (1, _film->video_frame_rate ());
diff --git a/src/lib/writer.cc b/src/lib/writer.cc
index 9c4a194e8..0e15edeca 100644
--- a/src/lib/writer.cc
+++ b/src/lib/writer.cc
@@ -148,12 +148,11 @@ Writer::Writer (shared_ptr<const Film> film, weak_ptr<Job> j)
 	}
 
 	job->sub (_("Encoding image data"));
+}
 
-	/* Do this last; if something after this line were to throw an exception
-	   (say if Job::sub was interrupted by cancel) this thread would never
-	   get properly cleaned up but the Writer object would go away underneath
-	   it.
-	*/
+void
+Writer::start ()
+{
 	_thread = new boost::thread (boost::bind (&Writer::thread, this));
 }
 
diff --git a/src/lib/writer.h b/src/lib/writer.h
index be1d3f69e..cec6ba527 100644
--- a/src/lib/writer.h
+++ b/src/lib/writer.h
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ public:
 	Writer (boost::shared_ptr<const Film>, boost::weak_ptr<Job>);
 	~Writer ();
 
+	void start ();
+
 	bool can_fake_write (int) const;
 
 	void write (Data, int, Eyes);