[Ffmpeg-devel] libswscale 8 bit decoding

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Fri Nov 17 01:48:13 CET 2006


Hi

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 09:30:23PM +0100, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > Or is the focus of future 
> > > development going to be on libswscale with an eventual aim to using
> > > it  by default (if not actually completely obsoleting imgresample),
> > > and so  patches to imgresample to add functionality will be unlikely
> > > to be  accepted because that diverges its functionality further from
> > > that  provided by libswscale?
> > 
> > i will svn remove imgresample/convert soon (basically iam just waiting
> > for the LGPL relicense thing to be finished)
> > 
> > feel free to port any better code to swscale before or after that
> 
> And what is the problem with leaving it? You could make --enable-swscale
> enabled by default.

my decission is final, it will be removed ASAP

its redundant, duplicated functionality, extra work maintaining, people
might waste their time writing patches for it
or in other words many disadvantages and no advantage

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