[FFmpeg-devel] Deprecation of visual output devices

[wm4]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:31:37 +0100
Josh de Kock <josh at itanimul.li> wrote:

> On 27/09/2017 16:28, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > 2017-09-27 17:21 GMT+02:00 Josh de Kock <josh at itanimul.li>:  
> >> On 27/09/2017 16:17, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:  
> >>> 2017-09-27 17:15 GMT+02:00 wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com>:  
> >>>> 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  
> >>>
> >>> FFplay only supports a limited set of pix_fmts,
> >>> contrary to those devices.  
> >>
> >> So if there is pix_fmt parity then I can remove OpenGL, and SDL2?  
> > 
> > No, but you can mark my argument as obsolete.  
> 
> I see no reason to bring parity to ffplay then.
> 
> >> This should be simple enough.  
> > 
> > Sure?
> > I was more under the assumption that this is simply impossible.
> > (Until SDL3)  
> 
> Why would it be impossible? I don't see how the OpenGL, SDL2 device
> could support more pixel formats than FFplay when they *all* use SDL2.

The OpenGL one uses shaders, but for the others his argument is bogus,
yes.