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

[Nicolas George]

dcnieho at gmail.com (12021-06-02):
> I (new contributor) have been making a push to get avdevice/dshow to where
> it is great to use programmatically (see recent patches, more coming). One
> thing on my list is to be able to through the API query the capabilities of
> my device, as right now I'd have to ask users to run a command like ffmpeg
> -list_options true -f dshow -i video="Camera" to get that info and manually
> enter it into my program, let alone that I am unable to make a nicer GUI. I
> see that this capability has just been deprecated. Instead of waiting for a
> new avdevice interface that may or may not come (I personally like that they
> are just formats like anything else, super easy to use), would it be
> possible to undeprecate when I provide an implementation of
> create_device_capabilities for the dshow avdevice?

Excellent. Applications that use the advanced features of libavdevice
and serve as test beds for these features are sorely needed.

The project has no real system to make engagements about something like
this, but I can say that if you propose a patch series that de-deprecate
the API and implements it in dshow, I would personally support it.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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