ffmpeg plans for F-16 ?

[Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello]

2011/8/1 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at 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=2f81d0d63b15dd9d8485efd88968b12ac208c577
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=4308323da50d235ef4ac87cd1a0444f6c4f7aba4
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