[FFmpeg-devel] Project orientation

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, at 23:51, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 11:25:31PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> [...]
> > At some point, the project needs to decide what is in and what is out, and since FFmpeg has numerous APIs, people can plug them externally. It's not a problem to say "No" to a feature, especially when, the number of people using that feature is under 0,01% of FFmpeg users, and when people can build that externally anyway.
> 
> what we need is not to say "no" but to say 
> "use this API, implement the module in your own repository, and register your module there"

Once again, Michael, we agree, on this topic.

No, means "not in the ffmpeg repo" does not mean "no, this is not useful".

An API for registering 3rd party avio and avfilters have been requested quite a few times, indeed.


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