[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] drop libamr support

[Ronen Mizrahi]

Thanks. Yes, the installer is not patient enough for sure but I am
afraid there is also another issue there since sometimes the services
does not start.
Regarding the, crash one peculiar thing in the screenshot is that the
instruction is said to be at address zero not just the memory it is
accessing, I never actually seen that kind of message before (i.e. with
two zeros).

Ronen

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Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>   
>> I've been thinking about libamr again while handling the SaffronEncoder
>> and I am thinking more and more that we should drop libamr support
>> outright.
>>     
>
> Well I disagree. I think that we should just only support it via dynamic
> loading. No need to remove support completely for libamr.
>
>   
>> [Reminder: libamr is copyrighted without any kind of license grant.   As
>> a consequence it is non-free and unredistributable.]
>>
>> Whatever binaries are created with libamr support are unredistributable.
>> Nonetheless many are created and redistributed and I fear that most
>> people are not doing this on purpose but are blissfully unaware of the
>> consequences.
>>     
>
> Not if only dynamic loading is supported.
>
>   
>> Another point is that while there is a convenient way to hook up libamr
>> in FFmpeg the incentive to implement a native replacement will be low.
>>
>> I fear we are not doing anybody a favor with what we currently have and
>> that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.
>>
>> Anybody who desperately needs AMR support can go back to a revision with
>> libamr support, people who wish to compare native replacements with the
>> reference lib can do the same.
>>     
>
> Well there is no encoder for amr so I think we should keep support for
> libamr just for the sake of not loosing the amr encoder option.
>
>   
>> I vote for removing libamr.
>>
>> Diego
>>     
>
> I vote for not removing libamr. What we should do is change the license
> to undistributable when libamr is staticly compiled with FFmpeg in GPL mode.
>
> MvH
> Benjamin Larssonn
>
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