[FFmpeg-devel] Would liek to contribute changes

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Wed Oct 12 17:51:06 CEST 2011


On Wednesday, 12 October 2011 at 02:46, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:36:49PM +0200, Levin Igor wrote:
> > 
> >                 Hi.
> > I'm a software engineer in a company and I recently used FFMPEG version
> > 0.6.1 to read and write from .mov and .3gp format containers in my project.

Great! However, please keep in mind that 0.6.x is ancient and no longer
maintained.

> > I've made a few relatively minor changes to the base FFMPEG code,
> > mostly to store additional metadata with H264 stream (like maximum NALU
> > size, for example). This changed code worked well for me and was tested.
> > I'd like now to contribute my changes back to the community. What is the
> > recommended way of doing this ?
> 
> Simply send clean patches generated with git format-patch or equivalnet
> to ffmpeg-devel.
> Make sure each patch does not contain unrelated changes

Additionally, please remake the patches against current git master,
as 0.6.x is too old.

Regards,
Dominik

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