[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Revert "Merge commit '3bc2e89c76e88ae6f1fd5287e0b11abcfc3c601c'"

[Timothy Gu]

On Dec 16, 2013 2:56 PM, "Michael Niedermayer" <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> This reverts commit 792845e436ddc5f3ce11ba02535a3372919061f2, reversing
> changes made to 1d6666a6b828cca6c6b355a9b62f25607b1ced08.
>
> Bumping libavutil requires all libraries that use libavutil to have their
> major version bumped (yes breakage has been confirmed this is not a
hypotheses)
>
> One case of breakage is due to new types being added to AVOptions and
> applications that linked to old libavutil and libswresample
> then trying to use old libavutil (its soname changed so the old isnt
updated)
> and new swresample (its soame didnt change so it is updated)
> the new swresample contains AVOption types that the old libavutil doesnt
> know of thus the application attempting to access these avoptions
> fails
>
> AVOptions are used by all libs so the issue can potentially happen with
> any other lib, libswresample was just the first that showed the problem
> ive not checked if the other libs are affected currently by the same issue
> or not

Things are getting nastier and nastier here...

Timothy