[Ffmpeg-devel] deprecated - is the Motion project soon doomed?

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:48:27AM +0200, Kenneth Lavrsen wrote:
> I just released a new version of Motion (3.2.7) and at the same time 
> downloaded latest SVN checkout of ffmpeg.
> 
> I get these warnings when I compile now.
> 
> /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:249: warning: `AVFrac' is 
> deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:102)
> /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:405: warning: `AVImageInfo' is 
> deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:390)
> /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:408: warning: `AVImageInfo' is 
> deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:390)
> /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:413: warning: `AVImageFormat' is 
> deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:411)
> /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:418: warning: `AVImageFormat' is 
> deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:411)
> /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:419: warning: `AVImageInfo' is 
> deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:390)
> /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:420: warning: `AVImageFormat' is 
> deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:411)
> /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:420: warning: `AVImageInfo' is 
> deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:390)
> 
> So it seems the ffmpeg code Motion is using for making mpegs is all 
> deprecated.
> 
> Does this mean that we are doomed soon?
> 
> How are we going to rewrite the Motion code so we use non-deprecated 
> functions?
> I have searched for some kind of documentation on it but there is non.
> The output_example.c which is the official "documentation" still uses 
> this structures!
> 
> Can I have some guidance please.

no, what you quote shows that deprecated structs are used within a header
from libavformat, not that you use them, and yes id like to suppress these
too but i dunno how (adding attribute deprecated to the uses of a deprecated
struct which shouldnt cause warnings to be printed doesnt work)

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