[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 0/4] avdevice/dshow: implement capabilities API

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Diederick C. Niehorster (2021-06-05 16:51:32)
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 4:36 PM Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net> wrote:
> > Sorry to rain on your parade, but I don't think we should go ahead with
> > this before deciding what is to be done with libavdevice. The last
> > discussion about it died without being resolved, but the issues are
> > still present.
> 
> I understand. I realize I'm new here: Is there a timeline for such a
> discussion and could the discussion benefit from a real usage example
> such as this patch series? I guess a big change in libavdevice should
> at least offer the functionality the current implementation offers (or
> theoretically offers :p). I really like the current design where an
> avdevice can just be used through the avformat interface. Add
> avdevice_register_all(); and Bob's your uncle!

There is no timeline, it depends on someone sitting down and doing the
work. The options proposed so far were
1) merging libavdevice into libavformat
2) making libavdevice into an independent library with an independent
   API
3) moving libavdevice functionality into ffmpeg.c

I volunteered to do 1), but was stopped by some issues and Mark
volunteering to do 2). But Mark did not progress far on that apparently,
so now we are stuck. Maybe we should do a technical committee vote on
it.

-- 
Anton Khirnov