[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avdevice/avdevice: Deprecate AVDevice Capabilities API

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Andreas Rheinhardt (2021-01-24 21:42:10)
> James Almer:
> > On 1/24/2021 5:16 PM, Andreas Rheinhardt wrote:
> >> It has been added in 6db42a2b6b22e6f1928fafcf3faa67ed78201004,
> >> yet since then none of the necessary create/free_device_capabilities
> >> functions has been implemented, making this API completely useless.
> >>
> >> Because of this one can already simplify
> >> avdevice_capabilities_free/create and can already remove the function
> >> pointers at the next major bump.
> > 
> > Not against it if nobody will bother to implement this on existing
> > devices, but since the long term idea is to merge lavd into lavf, I
> > assume the entirety of the library's API will be eventually deprecated
> > and replaced.
> 
> I know that Anton is currently working on merging them, but I thought
> that this would only involve compiling lavd into libavformat.so; not
> that the API would be changed or the libavdevice/ source folder merged
> into libavformat.

My plan is currently to move the sources into a subdirectory of
libavformat/. The question of the API is for the most part separte.

I like this patch BTW.

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Anton Khirnov