[FFmpeg-devel] Next developer meeting

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:45 AM Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net> wrote:

> Quoting James Almer (2020-11-11 14:13:07)
> > I don't recall anything about splitting IO, but what does it achieve
> > beyond making lavf lighter? Are there users out there that could care
> > about linking to an hypothetical lavio while not caring about other lavf
> > functionality?
>
> Yes, I recall several people expressing interest in a separate libavio.
>
> Also, I believe it would be good for us internally, since it would
> - allow other libraries to do IO cleanly without depending on lavf
> - force us to clean up avio public API, which is not in a great shape


Avio public API would be great, regardless of library split. Certain
companies using ffmpeg in their transcoding system want only their own I/O.
I doubt they care much for the binary size saved from not linking to lavio,
but stable public API is important.

Ronald