[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec: remove old vdpau decoder implementation

compn tempn at mi.rr.com
Sun Oct 4 15:25:23 CEST 2015


On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 14:48:25 +0200
wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 11:31:31 +0000 (UTC)
> Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> 
> > wm4 <nfxjfg <at> googlemail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 22:23:21 +0200
> > > Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos <at> ag.or.at> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Saturday 03 October 2015 10:05:29 pm wm4 wrote:
> > > > > Ping. Will push in 24 hours or so if nobody complains.
> > > > 
> > > > The reason I am against this is just that users told me 
> > > > repeatedly (in person) that they switched from the dark 
> > > > side to FFmpeg because this (and possibly) other API 
> > > > was removed there.
> > > 
> > > As I've said several times, progress is not possible (or 
> > > requires lots of wasted energy) if we don't drop obsolete 
> > > APIs.
> > 
> > What makes the old API "obsolete"? You?
> 
> Existence of a better API that does everything the old API did. How is
> this so hard to understand?

i think carl is asking whom did the deprecating in ffmpeg.

carl: if this new api works with kodi and mplayer, whats the problem?

are there still users of this api in 2015? yes or no?

carl, do you use this api? what for? to test vdpau?

carl is maintainer of this vdpau code, wm4.
its right there in MAINTAINERS.

http://ffmpeg.org/developer.html#Contributing
1.4 Development Policy

7. Do not commit changes to the build system (Makefiles, configure
script) which change behavior, defaults etc, without asking first. The
same applies to compiler warning fixes, trivial looking fixes and to
code maintained by other developers. We usually have a reason for doing
things the way we do. Send your changes as patches to the ffmpeg-devel
mailing list, and if the code maintainers say OK, you may commit. This
does not apply to files you wrote and/or maintain.

specifically says do not change code without maintainers approval,
twice.

feel free to change developer policy by rfc'ing a patch....

i'm just trying to help.

-compn


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