Hi

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Breaking compatibility with released version is never a great idea.
>
> What do you think about:
>
>  - documenting this fact more prominently
>  - renaming the current (new) ac3 encoder to -> 'ac3_float'
>  - leaving the old encoder with the name 'ac3_fixed'
>  - deprecate using the name 'ac3', and issue a warning with av_log or
>   something to get application developers to explicitly choose their
>   encoder

I don't think that helps. In order to stay compatible with broken
apps, we need to basically keep using ac3_fixed as ac3. I think that's
OK, anyone have a patch handy? An AV_LOG_WARNING would be appropriate
though, at least if the user opened ac3 instead of ac3_fixed/float.

Ronald
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