[FFmpeg-devel] Deprecation of visual output devices

[wm4]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:17:37 +0200
Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2017-09-27 17:15 GMT+02:00 wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com>:
> > On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:08:06 +0200
> > Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> 2017-09-27 15:18 GMT+02:00 Josh de Kock <josh at itanimul.li>:
> >>  
> >> > There is no point of having these output devices as all the
> >> > functionality is contained in the 'ffplay' tool.  
> >>
> >> I use at least sdl and opengl regularly for tests that cannot
> >> be done with ffplay.  
> >
> > How does it make sense to use those for testing  
> 
> FFplay only supports a limited set of pix_fmts,
> contrary to those devices.
> 
> > when the rendering isn't particularly correct in the first place?  
> 
> I had not known this / this has not hit me so far.
> How can I reproduce?

Apparently it doesn't respect colorspace, any other colorimetry
settings, chroma location, and I wouldn't trust it to get odd cropping
right. It's really basic and naive.