[FFmpeg-devel] lavfi state of affairs

[Benjamin Larsson]

Vitor Sessak wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 08:48:08PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>>     
>>> On date Tuesday 2009-02-03 13:57:47 +0100, Diego Biurrun encoded:
>>>       
>>>> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:52:20AM +0100, Benjamin Larsson wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Benjamin Larsson <banan at ludd.ltu.se> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>>> you have my approval to drop/disable/svn rm vhook
>>>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> As suggested in another thread can we do that after the upcoming release ?
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> better drop it before the release. Otherwise user might actually use
>>>>>> that feature...
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I don't really care my only argument is that there are users out there 
>>>>> who still uses vhook. Giving them an official release where it was last 
>>>>> supported/working could be nice.
>>>>>           
>>>> I agree with Benjamin.  I'll add a note to the release notes that
>>>> mentions that vhook will go away immediately after the release.
>>>>         
>>> (Sorry to chime in just now, I had some (dis)connettivity problems in
>>> the last days...).
>>>
>>>       
>>> What about to drop VHOOK just after *all* its functionality is
>>> implemented in lavfi? That would be definitively nicer towards the
>>> users.
>>>       
>> iam VERY VERY VERY VERY strongly against this
>> that way we would in 5 years still not have half of vhook ported to lavfi
>>     
>
> Your reasoning is only true if avoiding the loss of a feature motivates 
> devs more than getting rid of ugly code...
>
> -Vitor
>   

IMO porting filters to lavfi would be quite a good task.

MvH
Benjamin Larsson