[FFmpeg-devel] GSoC 2016 own ideas

[Paul B Mahol]

On 2/18/16, Gerion Entrup <gerion.entrup.ffdev at flump.de> wrote:
>> > - merge of ffmpeg and ffplay (call ffmpeg without output reacts like
> ffplay). Maybe this idea is fairly naive.
>> >
>>
>> That sounds hard, and maybe not really what we'd want anyway. (Updating
>> ffplay with SDL2 or something sounds more realistic.)
> A question for that. If I get it right, ffplay use SDL directly. It is
> wanted
> to "swap it out" to some kind of libavdevice and then use this device out of
> ffplay?

There is already SDL(1) output in libavdevice.

But libavdevice is just bad libavformat ripof API wise.
There is no libavdevice API. And it is shame.

I had idea to improve it but seems nobody likes such idea.