[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] hwaccel: add VideoToolbox support.

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 03:35:09PM +0200, Sebastien Zwickert wrote:
> ---
>  Changelog                 |    1 +
>  MAINTAINERS               |    1 +
>  configure                 |   12 +
>  libavcodec/Makefile       |    7 +
>  libavcodec/allcodecs.c    |    4 +
>  libavcodec/h264.c         |    1 +
>  libavcodec/mpeg12.c       |    3 +
>  libavcodec/mpegvideo.c    |    1 +
>  libavcodec/version.h      |    2 +-
>  libavcodec/videotoolbox.c |  560 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  libavcodec/videotoolbox.h |  128 +++++++++++
>  libavutil/pixdesc.c       |    6 +
>  libavutil/pixfmt.h        |    1 +
>  13 files changed, 726 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 libavcodec/videotoolbox.c
>  create mode 100644 libavcodec/videotoolbox.h


I know I am late, but what is the point of this and the difference to
VDA?
And WTF is up with the developers of hardware acceleration frameworks
that they can't design one that manages to work for more than one
OS generation without being replaced?
Are the people designing them incompetent or do they just skip the
"design" step?