[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 5/5] doc: remove avutil.txt

[James Almer]

On 10/11/13 8:48 AM, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> I don't know if we should move this (and the "It is not a library for
> code needed by both libavcodec and libavformat" thing) to
> libavutil.texi.
> 

Regarding the "It is not a library for code needed by both libavcodec and 
libavformat", how true is that in general? What's people opinion?

I have so far contributed with RIPEMD and SHA-2 512 modules that, while 
certainly useful in many situations, they seemingly aren't so in multimedia. 
No format or protocol ever seems to use anything but CRC32, MD5 or SHA-1.

I ask because i have written several other crypto modules (MD4, CRC64, Tiger 
and Whirlpool, all available in my github repo) that i haven't yet submitted 
for reviewing because i wasn't sure they were worth the maintenance burden 
if no format or protocol would ever give them any use.
If lavu's purpose is being a feature complete utility library (or as complete
as possible at least) meant to be used in any kind of project, then I'll post 
them here.

Regards.