[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libx264: support for BUILD >= 63

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

>> > And while we're at it we could assert(X264_BUILD == x264_build()) in
>> > the init code (assuming that function is implemented).
>>
>> Bad idea too; x264 can and does make API modifications that do not
>> break backwards compatibility.
>
> Yes but how can you tell? It may happen and it effectively happened at
> least to one user on ffmpeg-user that he compiled with version X and
> was loading an ABI incompatible version Y, which resulted in a crash.

You're right, I misinterpreted the code; I thought he was saying that
we would hardcode a version number into ffmpeg, and anything other
than that would fail.

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