[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 03/12] lavfi: drop vf_qp

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, at 15:46, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 2/26/20, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> > Yo,
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, at 14:27, Thilo Borgmann wrote:
> >> > The patch in your link is not using this API. Precisely because this API
> >> > is inadequate for anything newer than MPEG4 ASP. If anything, it's an
> >> > additional argument in favor of my patches.
> >>
> >> My actual point about that patch was that there is a use case to
> >> extract QP tables for more current codecs. Suggests this use case is
> >> also there for less current ones which says we should not just remove
> >> this possibility.
> >
> > I think this is the right question:
> > "Are there actual valid use cases to do it?"
> >
> > I remember that last year, there was an extractqp for h264 patches from
> > Google, for example.
> >
> > Any other question is basically less important.
> >
> > If that is useful, then, we should update the API and remove the old API.
> > If it is not, then, let's remove everything.
> >
> 
> It is useful as already proved. Please refrain from ignoring obvious facts.

Please learn how to talk nicely to people, that will help quite a bit.

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