[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] avformat: Add AMQP version 0-9-1 protocol support

Anton Khirnov anton at khirnov.net
Mon Mar 2 12:41:10 EET 2020


Quoting Marton Balint (2020-02-29 17:09:58)
> 
> 
> On Sat, 29 Feb 2020, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> 
> > I think this was already rejected?
> 
> jb questioned if this belongs to libavformat, and timo asked how well the 
> message brokers handle high bitrates/big message sizes, no hard rejects 
> were made as far as I remember.
> 
> Andriy provided numbers for scaling, I have not answered the concerns 
> regarding libavformat integration, because I am not sure I understand the 
> concern. AMQP is a general purpose protocol for message transfer, it even 
> has an official URL scheme, so when we integrate it into libavformat as a 
> *protocol* I don't really see why it would not fit into the framework or 
> what can be gained if it is implemented separately.
> 
> If people still have hard feelings against merging this, please speak up, 
> but I honestly don't see a problem with it.

I would say the question is what is it for? Is anyone using (or
intending to use) this for multimedia transfer? What are the advantages
of doing that over other existing protocols? "why not" does not seem
like a sufficient argument to me.

-- 
Anton Khirnov


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