[FFmpeg-soc] libavfilter audio work - qualification task

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 08:11:26PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Monday 2010-04-05 19:32:59 +0200, Reimar Döffinger encoded:
> > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 07:11:50PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > > For the deinterlace filter, do we want just a vf_* wrapper for
> > > > imgconvert functions or should the code be ported to the
> > > > vf_deinterlace filter?
> > > 
> > > It should be ported, lavfi should not depend on lavc (that is it
> > > should be usable without any libavcodec installed).
> > 
> > Uh, any of the advanced deinterlace filters and some more of MPlayer's
> > filters depend on lavc.
> > I don't think Michael will accept if you propose to duplicate half the
> > snow encoder in lavfi.
> > So except for basic functionality I don't see that much point in avoid
> > a dependency on lavc if it duplicates more than just a few lines of
> > code.
> 
> Yes of course some filter may depend on lavc. As for what regards the
> deinterlacing implemented in imgconvert.c it looked to me simple
> enough to not require to add a dependancy just for that, also I think
> that feature (as well as cropping/padding in lavc) is going to be
> deprecated.

Sure, I don't object to your "conclusion", just the reasoning you gave
seemed not quite right to me, the above seems like a better one to me.