Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] lavc/mpeg*: drop the XvMC hwaccel code

2022-02-08 Thread Anton Khirnov
Quoting Soft Works (2022-02-09 07:19:23) > > Sure. Don't understand my reply as an objection I don't even know what > xvmc is (or was). I rather see the burden and effort that it takes > to retain all those compatibility paths and at the same time how it > is blocking innovation and progress. >

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] lavc/mpeg*: drop the XvMC hwaccel code

2022-02-08 Thread Soft Works
> -Original Message- > From: ffmpeg-devel On Behalf Of > Anton Khirnov > Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 6:49 AM > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches de...@ffmpeg.org> > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] lavc/mpeg*: drop the XvMC > hwacce

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] lavc/mpeg*: drop the XvMC hwaccel code

2022-02-08 Thread Anton Khirnov
Quoting Soft Works (2022-02-08 22:34:42) > > > > -Original Message- > > From: ffmpeg-devel On Behalf Of > > Anton Khirnov > > Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 10:37 AM > > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches > de...@ffmpeg.org> > &

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] lavc/mpeg*: drop the XvMC hwaccel code

2022-02-08 Thread Soft Works
> -Original Message- > From: ffmpeg-devel On Behalf Of > Anton Khirnov > Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 10:37 AM > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches de...@ffmpeg.org> > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] lavc/mpeg*: drop the XvMC > hwacce

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] lavc/mpeg*: drop the XvMC hwaccel code

2022-02-08 Thread Anton Khirnov
Quoting Andreas Rheinhardt (2022-02-07 02:46:08) > I thought that removing components is only possible at a major version > bump. Am I wrong? AFAIK we provide no API guarantees for specific components being available. -- Anton Khirnov ___ ffmpeg-devel

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] lavc/mpeg*: drop the XvMC hwaccel code

2022-02-08 Thread Anton Khirnov
Quoting Soft Works (2022-02-07 03:18:54) > I sometimes wonder whether there exists a single API user who > really understands this (very special) kind of logic and > would make decisions based on that understanding. > > When it's not even fully understood internally, how should it > be understood

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] lavc/mpeg*: drop the XvMC hwaccel code

2022-02-06 Thread Soft Works
> -Original Message- > From: ffmpeg-devel On Behalf Of > James Almer > Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 2:53 AM > To: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] lavc/mpeg*: drop the XvMC > hwaccel code > > On 2/6/2022 10:46 PM, Andreas

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] lavc/mpeg*: drop the XvMC hwaccel code

2022-02-06 Thread James Almer
On 2/6/2022 10:46 PM, Andreas Rheinhardt wrote: Anton Khirnov: XvMC was last relevant over 10 years ago, if ever. There is no reason to use it today. --- MAINTAINERS| 1 - configure | 9 - libavcodec/Makefile| 2 -

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] lavc/mpeg*: drop the XvMC hwaccel code

2022-02-06 Thread Andreas Rheinhardt
Anton Khirnov: > XvMC was last relevant over 10 years ago, if ever. There is no reason to > use it today. > --- > MAINTAINERS| 1 - > configure | 9 - > libavcodec/Makefile| 2 - > libavcodec/avcodec.h | 12 -- >

[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/4] lavc/mpeg*: drop the XvMC hwaccel code

2022-02-01 Thread Anton Khirnov
XvMC was last relevant over 10 years ago, if ever. There is no reason to use it today. --- MAINTAINERS| 1 - configure | 9 - libavcodec/Makefile| 2 - libavcodec/avcodec.h | 12 -- libavcodec/error_resilience.c | 9 -