Hi, On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Stefano Sabatini <[email protected]> wrote: > On date Tuesday 2011-05-24 11:52:06 +0200, Diego Biurrun encoded: >> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:38:30AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote: >> > On date Tuesday 2011-05-24 07:34:57 +0200, Anton Khirnov encoded: >> > > Hi, >> > > with demuxer private options in my local tree, it's time to start >> > > replacing AVFormatParameters with private options. >> > > Note that i can't test the bktr/sndio/oss/v4l patches, so it'd be nice if >> > > somebody else did. You can get this tree from >> > > git://git.khirnov.net/git/libav >> > > branch ap. >> > >> > > Btw is there any reason to still support V4L? AFAIK it's been deprecated >> > > since stone age. >> > >> > And it took years to be properly implemented in Linux, then years to >> > be properly implemented in applications (e.g. in the Flash player), >> > and will probably requires years before to be properly "propagated" to >> > distro. >> > >> > So it's a good idea to keep it, at least for one release or two. >> >> But haven't these years passed already? Who is still relying on V4L1? > > I can imagine ancient Debian installations which rely on V4L/FFmpeg > for video-surveillance systems. > The next day the admin will try to update FFmpeg/Libav on it and it > will swear against the developers who removed V4L. > > Maybe I have too much imagination, but really considering how much > time old software/devices tends to stay in the business I think > keeping it at least for another release is a good idea.
I don't think this is imagination. I agree it's old, but I do think it is useful for certain people. It doesn't hurt too much to keep it around. We can consider doing off-by-default unless you use proper configure parameters to turn it on. Ronald _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
