[FFmpeg-devel] libavfilter: single ffplay.c diff?

Vitor Sessak vitor1001
Fri Sep 26 18:37:20 CEST 2008


Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Thursday 2008-09-25 22:42:15 +0200, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
>> What about to provide in libavfilter just a single patch for ffplay.c
>> rather than:
>> 01_ffplay_get_video_frame.diff    03_ffplay_filters.diff
>> 02_ffplay_VideoPicture_vars.diff  
>>
>> This should ease development (for example if I change X I have to
>> "revert" up to the relevant diffed version N, then I have to make the
>> diff against N-1, and finally change the following diffs). While I'm
>> sure there are better ways to achieve that (e.g. to use quilt/git) in
>> practice it makes more difficult to provide patches to
>> libavfilter-soc.
>>
>> So I suggest to use just a patch for ffplay.c as the one provided for
>> ffmpeg.c, then I think we should update both patches to a recent
>> version of FFmpeg (I volunteer for it).
> 
> In order to simplify testing and development I also propose to use a
> checkout.sh script like in others soc projects, check the patch below.

I'm favorable to both changes, but please note that the ffplay patch is 
not really in a very good state...

-Vitor




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