[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] AVFilter

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Niklas Haas (2024-10-16 14:30:47)
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:12:21 +0200 Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > This is a quick RFC about peoples oppinions on AVFilter
> >
> > The question: Should anyone be able to write a filter (which
> > other people can use) ?
> > Or should only we be able to add filters ?
> 
> As a compromise, we could allow external filters with a more strict ABI
> requirement, i.e. the filter must be built against the exact same version of
> libavfilter. That way, we could still change the API as needed, without
> needing to maintain long-term ABI compatibility.

Is that really any better than just adding your filter into your private
fork of avfilter?

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Anton Khirnov