[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 0.6 status update

[Ramiro Polla]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Stefano Sabatini
<stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> On date Saturday 2010-03-13 17:24:28 +0100, Reinhard Tartler encoded:
>> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 15:09:12 (CET), Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> > Currently, we plan to try Mar 13 as date X, but depending on the
>> > resulting discussion about this announcement, we can also delay it a few
>> > days/weeks. Depending on the condition of the 0.6 branch on day X + 7
>> > (this might be Mar 20), we can ideally release in the week between 22-27
>> > of Mar.
>>
>> Okay, that would be then today. looking at FATE [1], things seems to be
>> mostly fine, with some known test failures. The single known build
>> failure is on ia64 and caused by a gcc bug (according to mans, our .bss
>> segment is about 5MB, but gcc fails to handle that, so *shrug*).
>>
>> Regarding the other FATE test suite failures, does anyone care to get
>> them fixed for 0.6? And more importantly, does anyone have good reasons
>> or pending patches to delay creating the branch for one week? In any
>> case, we will still accept/backport selected changes for another week,
>> but we need to know if trunk is currently a good basis for a new
>> release.
>
> There was the idea to include libavfilter integration in ffmpeg for
> the 0.6 release, that would IMO be a huge bonus so maybe it would be
> worth to wait some more time for having it.
>
> Apparently there is just one big issue to be fixed before that, avoid
> an unneeded picture copy in ffmpeg.
>
> I'm not completely sure this can be addressed in less than a week,
> I'll try to give a stab at it in this weekend then we'll see if it is
> reasonable to delay the release for this.

I have a feeling this will take much longer than a week and the
release shouldn't be delayed because of that.