On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Brian Matherly <pez4br...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> In my mind, the real question is whether this is the straw that causes us > >> to drop compatibility with some older ffmpeg versions - in order to clean out >> some of the #ifdefs in the code. >> >> Yeah, I do want to do that because it will be too messy otherwise. > > One thing we could consider would be to keep the existing module but stop > chasing API changes and add a new module that cuts straight to the newest > API. Then, we could conditionally compile either one module or the other > depending on what version of ffmpeg/libav is detected at compile time. > > This is a minor nit, but I've never been satisfied with the module name: > "avformat". It really isn't very accurate since the module uses avcodec and > other libraries from the libav suite. Maybe this would be a good time to make > a new module with a new name: "libav" which would be a more accurate name, in > my opinion. avformat could be marked as deprecated and eventually dropped > (maybe in the 1.0 release or something like that). >
libavformat more or less sits at the top of the food chain in this set of libraries and uses the others, whereas the others do not use libavformat. Also, it neatly avoids taking sides with either project. But I mostly reject this idea because I am not interested in maintaining parallel modules. You are probably being optimistic in thinking that the legacy one would not need to be maintained. -- +-DRD-+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mlt-devel mailing list Mlt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mlt-devel
