[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Enable swscale by default

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> Hi
>
> The patch below enables swscale by default.
> The intent is to get more exposure, testing and to avoid people wasting time
> working on the old scaler.
>
> Index: configure
> ===================================================================
> --- configure	(revision 15306)
> +++ configure	(working copy)
> @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
>    echo "  --enable-nonfree         allow use of nonfree code, the resulting libav*"
>    echo "                           and ffmpeg will be unredistributable [default=no]"
>    echo "  --enable-postproc        enable GPLed postprocessing support [default=no]"
> -  echo "  --enable-swscale         software scaler support [default=no]"
> +  echo "  --disable-swscale        disable software scaler support [default=no]"
>    echo "  --enable-avfilter        video filter support (replaces vhook) [default=no]"
>    echo "  --enable-avfilter-lavf   video filters dependant on avformat [default=no]"
>    echo "  --enable-beosthreads     use BeOS threads [default=no]"
> @@ -972,6 +972,7 @@
>  enable protocols
>  enable static
>  enable stripping
> +enable swscale
>  vhook="default"

swscale is still marked gpl-only, which means that with this patch, a
plain ./configure will fail.  This is IMO unacceptable.  Before making
swscale the default, we need to make the gpl parts optional, so it can
still be built as lgpl.

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