[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] 5 year plan & Inovation

[Vittorio Giovara]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 9:01 PM Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Michael Niedermayer (12024-06-17):
> > also if you look at google trends, even today more people search for
> ffserver
> > than txproto. In fact at every point in time more people searched for
> ffserver
> > than txproto.
> >
> > https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=txproto,ffserver
> >
> > So even though ffserver is dead, removed and unmaintained, it has more
> > users
> >
> > And this comes back to what i said many times. We should use the name
> > FFmpeg, our domain and NOT push every bit of new inovation out into
> > sub projects.
> >
> > We should put a newly developed ffserver into the main ffmpeg git.
> > We should put wasm build support into the main ffmpeg git.
> > We should turn ffplay into a fully competetive player.
> > ...
>
> Hear! Hear!
>
> I would add, as general guiding principles:
>
> We should provide both low- and high-level APIs. Ideally, the fftools
> should be just user interface around the high-level APIs provided by the
> libraries.


Patches welcome? Not that it means anything, but you had exactly 2 lines on
ffserver before it got removed, so I wonder who exactly you think should be
maintaining all that cruft code (honest question, if you have a real plan
for solving this ageless problem I think many people on the ML would be
interested)
-- 
Vittorio