[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec: Remove libutvideo support

wm4 nfxjfg at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 11 15:51:01 CET 2016


On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:47:52 +0000
Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:

> * Upstream libutvideo doesn't build as a lib, and Linux is not supported.
>   It has no API.
> * The fork that was used as an argument to keep support is *also* broken and
>   unmaintained now, and it's maintainer/author is fine with removal.
> * A third fork on github, *also* doesn't work.
> * The only working library that I can find is a package for an obscure distro,
>   in German only, with a bunch of patches applied.
> * The ASM in libutvideo doesn't even work on x86_64.
> * More, I'm sure others can fill in.

Couldn't come up with a more absurd yet justified list to argue for
removal of an external lib. You forgot to say that you're the
maintainer of the wrapper too.


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