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

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Am Mo., 2. März 2020 um 11:41 Uhr schrieb Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net>:
>
> 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.

I can only say that I (heavily) object to your argumentation, it is
basically against everything FFmpeg stands for (imo).

Carl Eugen