[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 0.6 status update

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 00:31:02 (CEST), Ramiro Polla wrote:

> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:
>> Ok, we now start the "freeze" week. This means that everyone has the
>> option to nominate any patch committed to trunk for backporting to
>> 0.6. Diego and I will consider and (if it makes sense) include it. This
>
> There are currently two issues with win64. One is that swscale doesn't
> build because of long being misused as register width (I'll fix that
> on trunk probably over the weekend), and the other is
> https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue1889
>
> Even if we fix the compilation of swscale, silent and hard to track
> bugs will still exist because of the xmm clobbering issue. So I
> suggest we specifically disable win64 builds in configure for the 0.6
> release (and print a warning explaining why), and possibly backport
> the changes after they get fixed on trunk for 0.6.x.

This sounds reasonable to me. AFAIUI from irc backlog, win64 support has
never really worked. Just to be sure, did ffmpeg 0.5 work on win64? If
not, this isn't a regression.

In any case, I think that disabling with a proper error message seems
most reasonable for me in th 0.6 series. Can you please implement this
changes in the 0.6 branch? Thanks!

In case this is a regression, we can consider reenabling win64 support
in a later in a later point release.

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4