[FFmpeg-devel] 5.0 release

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting James Almer (2021-12-13 20:04:34)
> 
> 
> On 12/13/2021 3:05 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, at 16:25, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >> If you know of any major issues which need to be done before the release do them
> >> now. If you know of any issues which are release-blocking list them in a reply
> >> here please.
> > 
> > Maybe the audio channel layout would be nice to settle before?
> 
> There are two or three requests/blockers, by Nicolas and i think Lynne.
> 
> - The request to have either a string to give custom channels a name, or 
> at least an opaque pointer per channel that can be used for such 
> purpose. This has seen opposition from Anton.

I do not oppose an opaque id, as long as it's not too big. I do oppose a
string though, as it would require extra allocations per channel.

> - The request to wait for a new string handling API to land and be used 
> for the relevant functions in this set. This has not seen opposition 
> from anyone yet, but it's not very feasible if said new API is not yet 
> in a state beyond a draft/RFC. It would delay this set indefinitely. We 
> can use AVBPrint in the meantime, and name the functions in a way that 
> reflects it, to leave the cleaner names for the future API.

I said this before, but let me state again that I oppose this for
various reasons.

> - The request to allow a channel ID to be present multiple times. This 
> has seen opposition from Anton and Hendrik (API user), and, if i 
> understood it correctly, support from Marton.

This is already possible. The disagreement is in how much explicit
support for it should exist.

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Anton Khirnov