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Author: Michael Niedermayer <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Aug 9 16:15:55 2025 +0200
Commit: Michael Niedermayer <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Mon Aug 11 12:33:16 2025 +0200
doc/developer: Basic documentation for Source Plugins
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <[email protected]>
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@@ -1142,4 +1142,36 @@ Publish the news entry.
Send an announcement to the mailing list.
@end enumerate
+@anchor{Source Plugins}
+@chapter Source Plugins
+
+@section What are Source Plugins
+
+Source plugins are a way to maintain features outside FFmpeg.
+
+Each is basically an automatically mergable git fork of FFmpeg.
+
+@section Checklist to be listed in merge-all-source-plugins
+
+@enumerate
+@item
+Supporting master and the latest release branch (with security fixes, when
vulnerabilities are discovered)
+Supporting older release branches is optional.
+
+@item
+under LGPL or GPL license (that is a compatible Free software license)
+and adds the needed dependancy to the --enable-gpl switch if its GPL.
+@end enumerate
+
+@section How to make a Source Plugin
+
+To be automatically mergable it is important to keep all changes clean and
well separated.
+If you want to create a new source plugin, look at an existing one, or simply
fork FFmpeg,
+name the repository "sourceplugin-..." and add it to
tools/merge-all-source-plugins
+and try running it. Also check that it works with the latest releases.
+
+@section merge Source Plugins
+
+tools/merge-all-source-plugins
+
@bye
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