[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 0.6 status update

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 07:31:02PM -0300, 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.

What's the status?

Diego