[FFmpeg-devel] XVMC Deathmatch

Ivan Kalvachev ikalvachev
Sun Feb 15 00:56:49 CET 2009


On 2/15/09, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:29:18AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:40:35PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:30:02PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:38:39PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> > > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 04:53:01PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > >    //these are not changed by the decoder!
>> > > > > >    int  magic;
>> > > > >
>> > > > > 3 points
>> > > > > find and get rid of or rename fields to "ununsed123" all unused
>> > > > > fields in this
>> > > > > struct, dont break ABI!
>> > > >
>> > > > All fields are used either in FFmpeg or MPlayer.
>> > > >
>> > > > The following are unused in FFmpeg:
>> > > >
>> > > >   int             mc_type;
>> > > >   int             chroma_format;
>> > > >   unsigned int    display_flags;
>> > > >   int             state;
>> > > >   void*           p_osd_target_surface_render;
>> > > >
>> > > > But they are all used in libvo/vo_xvmc.c in MPlayer as can be seen
>> > > > by
>> > > > trying to compile against an xvmc.h without those fields:
>> > > >
>> > > > libvo/vo_xvmc.c: In function 'xvmc_draw_image':
>> > > > libvo/vo_xvmc.c:378: error: 'struct xvmc_render_state' has no member
>> > > > named 'state'
>> > > > libvo/vo_xvmc.c: In function 'config':
>> > > > libvo/vo_xvmc.c:536: error: 'struct xvmc_render_state' has no member
>> > > > named 'mc_type'
>> > > > libvo/vo_xvmc.c:538: error: 'struct xvmc_render_state' has no member
>> > > > named 'chroma_format'
>> > > > libvo/vo_xvmc.c: In function 'draw_osd':
>> > > > libvo/vo_xvmc.c:899: error: 'struct xvmc_render_state' has no member
>> > > > named 'display_flags'
>> > > > libvo/vo_xvmc.c:899: error: 'struct xvmc_render_state' has no member
>> > > > named 'display_flags'
>> > > > libvo/vo_xvmc.c:902: error: 'struct xvmc_render_state' has no member
>> > > > named 'state'
>> > > > libvo/vo_xvmc.c:903: error: 'struct xvmc_render_state' has no member
>> > > > named 'state'
>> > > > libvo/vo_xvmc.c:904: error: 'struct xvmc_render_state' has no member
>> > > > named 'p_osd_target_surface_render'
>> > > > [...]
>> > > >
>> > > > Does research give points? :)
>> > >
>> > > no, you have to remove or rename these fields to unused* to get the
>> > > points.
>> >
>> > Well, I did do
>> >
>> >    int             mc_type;
>> >
>> > -->
>> >
>> >    int             unused1;
>> >
>> > and FFmpeg compiles fine afterwards, but when I put that xvmc.h in my
>> > MPlayer tree, I get the above compilation failure.
>> >
>> > Thus my conclusion is that the field is not, as you claim, unused.
>> > Am I missing something?
>> >
>> > > am i allowed to give tips on how to solve such things?
>> >
>> > This will likely result in more fixes :)
>>
>> well
>> first as was said the header was not public thus no rename in the header
>> really could break an external APP, removial of a field of course could
>> so renaming these to unused123 and placing them under #if
>> no_major_bump_yet
>> should not break anything (in theory)
>
> I had all the fields I mentioned above under
>
> #if LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 53
>
>> yes it means mplayer has to be updated before the next major bump and
>> before it could use our installed header instead of its private copy
>>
>> but thats mplayers problem to say it harshly ...
>
> Well...
> Ivan designed this incestuously.  It's kind of hard to tell if this is a
> public or a private header...

Well, don't tell me I didn't had reasons to hold your
plans on making it public header.

> I suggest that we assume it is becoming a public header just now and thus
> now that Ivan updated MPlayer to not use them anymore, the following two
> fields could be safely be removed:
>
>    int mc_type;
>    int chroma_format;
>
> OK to remove them?

You were the one who insisted on installing it.
Deal with the consequences.




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