That pull request made qTox crash in a number of ways, with no quick fix
available.
Hopefully there will be a way to fix crash, so that this commit could be
reverted, and fix applied.
And make it saner by not having one global password that has to be set before encrypting/decrypting, which is as racy and poorly designed as it gets
Fixes#1917 's immediate symtoms, which some potential for other regressions due to the mess that is encrypted persistence currently
There can now only be one CameraSource running.
Video frames are decoded in their own thread, and then converted by users in the user's threads.
The CameraSource API is entirely thread-safe and controls the video decoding thread.
The video device only stays open as long as there are users subscribed to the CameraSource.
We use a dangerous combination of spinlocks and memory fences to keep things synchronized.
We now use a binary serialized format to save space and allow clean encryption of the user settings.
All the settings can (and should) be edited from the GUI so there is no loss of functionnality.
It can still read the old .ini format, and will seamlessly upgrade to the new format.
Fixes#1810
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