[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec: only warn about hwaccel with frame threads

wm4 nfxjfg at googlemail.com
Sat Feb 6 18:25:46 CET 2016


On Sat, 6 Feb 2016 18:15:37 +0100
Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 06.02.2016 18:02, wm4 wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Feb 2016 17:48:17 +0100
> > Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> On 06.02.2016 17:42, wm4 wrote:  
> >>> On Sat, 6 Feb 2016 17:38:45 +0100
> >>> Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>>     
> >>>> On 06.02.2016 17:35, wm4 wrote:    
> >>>>> On Sat, 6 Feb 2016 17:32:12 +0100
> >>>>> Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:    
> >>>>>> So what do you suggest instead to get VLC's hwaccels working again soon?      
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Send a patch to VLC.      
> >>>>
> >>>> Writing such a patch is not easy.
> >>>> Feel free to prove me wrong by doing it.    
> >>>
> >>> We don't give in to blackmail (which is pretty what that VLC dev did)    
> >>
> >> I think you misunderstood something.
> >> We shouldn't gratuitously break API users.  
> > 
> > It's not an API break.
> >   
> >>> just because it's more convenient for you.    
> >>
> >> This has nothing to do with my convenience. It is about fixing an
> >> important regression caused by a commit you reviewed.  
> > 
> > It's not a regression in FFmpeg or its API.  
> 
> That's splitting hairs.
> VLC's hwaccels worked before that commit and don't work after it,
> which is a clear regression.

A regression in VLC. Make them fix it.

> All of that has been said before.

Indeed.


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