[FFmpeg-devel] SWS cleanup / SPI Funding Suggestion

[Cosmin Stejerean]

> On Oct 13, 2023, at 4:00 PM, Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> TBF this is in part why i was suggesting a new library - I feel like sws is
> affected by bad brading because of these caching issues and imprecise
> conversion, and a new clean api in a new library would make a lot of sense
> in my opinion.

I think the branding issue would solve itself in short order if the actual implementation of swscale started to be good. My concern with adding a new library is that we'd end up in a situation where we have both swscale and a new library side by side for some extended period of time. 

By comparison adding cleaner APIs to swscale and then slowly strangling the old APIs (along the lines of Niklas' proposal) would allow for a more gradual transition that has a higher likelihood of success compared to a full rewrite IMO.

- Cosmin