[FFmpeg-devel] attribute_deprecated int avpicture_deinterlace ??

[Don Moir]

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From: "Kieran Kunhya" <kierank at obe.tv>
To: "FFmpeg development discussions and patches" <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] attribute_deprecated int avpicture_deinterlace ??


> On 29 November 2013 13:53, Don Moir <donmoir at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kieran Kunhya" <kierank at obe.tv>
>>
>> To: "FFmpeg development discussions and patches" <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org>
>> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 8:53 PM
>>
>> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] attribute_deprecated int avpicture_deinterlace
>> ??
>>
>>
>>> On 29 November 2013 14:06, Don Moir <donmoir at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> deinterlacing is directly related to decoding in that you want a properly
>>>> decoded image and not some effect.
>>>
>>>
>>> Not everybody wants progressive output from interlaced material.
>>
>>
>> Not everybody wants to use avfilter. Deinterlace is already an option but I
>> don't think people generally want to watch stripes unless maybe they are
>> high :) .
>
> If you want the video in its original form use avcodec, if you want to
> process the video later (e.g deinterlace) you use avfilter. It's not
> complicated. I don't need to deinterlace, why do I need deinterlacing
> bloating up libavutil?

I suppose you use the bloat provided by avfilter and you are happy with that. I used libavfilter early on to check it out and 
thought it was pointless and still do and have no need for it at all. I suppose it has utility for some though.