[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/3] avdevice/xv: change codec to wrapped avframe

Marton Balint cus at passwd.hu
Mon Apr 6 22:15:56 EEST 2020



On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Nicolas George wrote:

> Marton Balint (12020-04-06):
>> Signed-off-by: Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu>
>> ---
>>  libavdevice/xv.c | 15 +++++----------
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> Thanks for working on this.
>
> Adding support for the more efficient API is a good idea.
>
> On the other hand, if applications use this device or a similar one
> specifically (I do in some of mine, I am certainly not alone), they
> would hardcode rawvideo. Therefore, we cannot remove support for
> rawvideo.

avdevice/xv and avdevice/opengl are rarely used outside of ffmpeg CLI 
invocations, so I don't think it is worth supporting the inferior 
rawvideo. If you feel strongly about this then let's drop rawvideo support 
after the API bump.

Regards,
Marton


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