[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v5 00/12] Subtitle Filtering

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 10:07 PM Soft Works <softworkz at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> All-in-all that doesn't seem to be worth all the hazzle. Again,
> that brings me back to my original approach:
>

It is for us, if its not for you, what can we say.
The only approach to go forwards is to prepare proper, clean and fully
featured integration that results in a clean API once the deprecation
period is over and the old stuff can get removed. Anything else would
be a hack and only serve your desired purpose, not the long-term API
design of FFmpeg, which unfortunately is just not acceptable.

This is the same approach that has been taken with many refactoring
projects in the past. If this would've been easy, patchsets to move
subtitles to AVFrame wouldn't have been all stuck in WIP development
branches by established FFmpeg developers.

If you are interested in doing it properly, we will listen and guide,
but if not... thats the only way its going to get accepted.

- Hendrik