[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] 5 year plan & Inovation

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 01:32:27PM +0200, Lynne wrote:
> Apr 22, 2024, 13:07 by stefasab at gmail.com:
> 
> > On date Sunday 2024-04-21 22:12:56 -0300, James Almer wrote:
> >
> >> On 4/17/2024 10:58 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >>
> > [...]
> >
> >> A full rewrite of ffserver, using only public API, and with modern streaming
> >> in mind. It would give a lot of code in lavf some use.
> >>
> >
> > If this is going to happen, my advice is to use "ffstream" to stick to
> > the ffVERB convention (with the exeption of ffmpeg, which might still
> > be converted to ffconvert with some proper aliasing) and to avoid
> > association with the old incompatible tool .
> >
> 
> That's basically what txproto is, only that it also does transcoding
> and filtering. It can accept incoming streams and output them to
> multiple destinations via remux or transcode. It was built as an
> ffmpeg.c with a scriptable interface and with dynamic switching.
> It doesn't do this out of the box, it's something you have to script,
> but that was largely the case that ffserver had.
> 
> What is missing is something that ffserver had, which was that
> it was able to express exactly what lavf had in its context on both
> the sender and receiver, for which it needed private APIs.
> AVTransport can largely fill that niche.

hmm
how would we (assert(people agreeing)) go from what you describe
to a (very easy to use) ffserver "2.0" in something on the ffmpeg.org download page
?

thx

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