Re: ffmpeg plans for F-16 ?
2011/8/1 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede(a)gmail.com>:
Hi,
Hi. :)
What makes you so sure current ffmpeg-0.7 using apps / libs
won't work with a simple recompile with ffmpeg-0.8? AFAIK
only API additions have been done, as well as some deprecated
functions removed. So if an app does not use these deprecated
functions it should be a matter of a simple recompile, right?
And if they do use those deprecated functions, maybe it can
be fixed with a simple patch?
Yup, I suspect they rely on those deprecated
functions.
If the patching will be simple or not I don't know. There was a lot of
renaming stuff like
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-ffmpeg/commit/?id=2f81d0d63b15d...
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=4308323da50d235ef4ac87c...
https://trac.handbrake.fr/changeset/3964
etc...
I'm not necessarily in favor of maintaining 2 versions in
parallel.
Mantaining the two versions may be easier than keep patches to make
all apps not compatible with the new API work. As apps are updated to
support the new API, the FFmpeg 0.7 package will be used less and less
until (hopefully) one day it can be killed.
Right, but doesn't the 0.7.2 release offer most of the new API?
Perhaps that is enough?
I don't know. :(
Regards,
Marcos