[FFmpeg-devel] [FFmpeg-devel-irc] IRC log for 2010-02-07

[Michael Niedermayer]

hi

i had to try to reply to a irclog :)
reply-to seems set to ffmpeg-dev, interresting

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> [11:04:59] <superdump> Dark_Shikari: fyi, siretart is also interested in updating the libx264 shipped with ffmpeg 0.5 to work with curretn x264 iirc
> [11:05:09] <superdump> maybe it was he that made the suggestion
> [11:05:15] <superdump> i would think that it isn't difficult
> [11:05:23] <superdump> and we could update the preset files too
> [11:05:33] <superdump> then maybe it could land in lucid
> [11:10:31] <twnqx> uh
> [11:10:42] <twnqx> why not just release 0.6 or even 1.0?
> [11:13:01] * twnqx never really understood that idea of backporting things to obsolete versions
> [11:18:29] <superdump> twnqx: because we could push out a 0.5.1 almost immediately but there are a number of things we would like to land in 0.6

how many known sec holes does 0.5 have?
do you guys want to backport all security fixes or just release a 0.5.1
with 12 months of unfixed secholes?


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> [20:25:57] <Dark_Shikari> We almost never break backwards compatibility though
> [20:26:02] <Dark_Shikari> once in 2-3 years at most
> [20:26:39] <Dark_Shikari> the main issue is that because ffmpeg uses the variables directly instead of the recommended param_parse API, it forces an x264 upgrade every single time ffmpeg is updated
> [20:26:55] <Dark_Shikari> key/value pairs would avoid this problem
> [20:27:14] <DonDiego> implement it
> [20:27:27] <Dark_Shikari> it won't give any benefit until we have codec-specific options ;)

it would fix the compatibility issues

besides codec specific options are just
an AVOption array for the private context of your AVCodec, 5 lines in ffmpeg.c
to set options in it.
not too hard but it still would need a 1-2 line addition inside
libavcodec/libx264.c for each new option. Its possible to avoid that
trivially even without codec specific options, just pass a string that
contains all the key value pairs and parse that. Its what mplayer/mencoder
do more or less. I do prefer the AVOption based solution though

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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

it is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make
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