[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v3 00/34] avdevice (mostly dshow) enhancements

[Diederick C. Niehorster]

ping for the series

On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 4:27 PM Diederick C. Niehorster
<dcnieho at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 8:46 AM Diederick C. Niehorster
> <dcnieho at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 11:20 AM Diederick Niehorster <dcnieho at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This patch series implements a series of features, mostly enhancing the
> > > dshow avdevice, but also adding new functionality to avformat.
> > > This whole patchset enabled users of the FFmpeg API to fully
> > > query and control a dshow device, making FFmpeg a nice backend for any
> > > program that needs access to, e.g., a webcam.
> >
> > Offlist, i received an LGTM from Roger Pack, the dshow maintainer.
>
> Ping for the series.
> I realize that there are some unfinished discussions. In my
> understanding, the proposal to lock avdevice and avformat together at
> the minor version level (see thread kicked off by this message:
> http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2021-June/281513.html), which
> has not seen detractors, resolves the issues that came up earlier
> about how to go forward with avdevice, correct? That would clear the
> way for re-introducing the (useful!) avdevice capabilities api, which
> i guess is the most contentious part of this patch set. Curious to
> hear of course if there is anything else blocking it!
>
> Let me know if there is anything i can facilitate, or alternatively,
> if this requires discussion in some meeting the project will have, do
> you have an idea when that meeting would be?
>
> Thanks and all the best,
> Dee