[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avdevice/decklink: add support for selecting devices based on their unique ID

[Marton Balint]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2018, Jeyapal, Karthick wrote:

>
> On 9/21/18 3:35 AM, Marton Balint wrote:
>> Also bump the API version requirement to 10.9.5, because on olders versions
>> there were some reports of crashes using the undocumented, yet available
>> BMDDeckLinkDeviceHandle.

> If we are using an undocumented API feature, then there is a higher risk 
> of this feature not working in some future versions of DeckLink drivers 
> as well. I would suggest using this undocumented API call under an 'if' 
> condition, which is controlled by a command line option for selecting 
> based on unique ID. In that way setups which prefers stability can 
> choose to not use this feature.

It got documented in 10.10, so this is no longer an issue. I tested it 
with 10.9.10 as there were (non-related) regressions in 10.10, and it 
worked fine there, so I figured it should be OK to require only 10.9. If 
you still think using a non-documented feature is shady, I can bump the 
requirement to 10.10.

Regards,
Marton