[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] AVFilter

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le torstaina 17. lokakuuta 2024, 14.38.19 EEST Nicolas George a écrit :
> Anton Khirnov (12024-10-17):
> > Is that really any better than just adding your filter into your private
> > fork of avfilter?

> Are you asking if there is a benefit in the ability to ship a tiny
> binary package with just “Depends: libavfilter (= 7:5.1.6-0+deb12u1)
> instead of a package of several megaoctets with a custom build?

It should be obvious that his question is much broader than that, a.k.a. "no".

In fact that specific point is hardly a benefit. If someone needs to ship a 
custom filter, they are almost certainly embedding their own FFmpeg anyway.

Debian is rather the exception than the rule as far as providing usable FFmpeg 
shared libraries in the system. But even if a platform like Debian is their 
target, external software assets will typically link FFmpeg statically to 
avoid versioning issues and/or to apply patches (to something that is not a 
filter). And this is only an observation; I do mean to advocating for or 
against static linking here.

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