[FFmpeg-devel] Deprecation of visual output devices

[wm4]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:08:06 +0200
Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2017-09-27 15:18 GMT+02:00 Josh de Kock <josh at itanimul.li>:
> 
> > There is no point of having these output devices as all the
> > functionality is contained in the 'ffplay' tool.  
> 
> I use at least sdl and opengl regularly for tests that cannot
> be done with ffplay.

How does it make sense to use those for testing, when the rendering
isn't particularly correct in the first place? Seems like a rather bad
idea.