[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avcodec/h264_parse: change prefix to avpriv for usage in avformat mxf muxer

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 2:28 PM Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2019-04-03 11:37 GMT+02:00, Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com>:
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> > We prefer not to expose huge modules like this as avpriv,
> > as it makes it part of the ABI
>
> (I am sure there are cases that are difficult to avoid,
> we also prefer not to duplicate functions.)
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> > and as such impossible to change without
> > deprecation cycles.
>
> That does not sound correct to me.
>

You are correct, we don't need deprecation cycles. But we do need a
major bump to change it, so thats typically still a up to 2 year
delay.

- Hendrik