[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec: split off synth_filter

[James Almer]

On 1/24/2016 6:48 PM, James Almer wrote:
> On 1/24/2016 6:41 PM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:53 PM, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> This should make replacing the current dca decoder for foo86's easier, without
>>> having to disable/reenable the compilation of synth_filter files in between
>>> removal/addition commits.
>>>
>>
>> While it would make the  migration easier, the synth filter is purely
>> a dca concept, is it not? Would it have any chance of being useful for
>> anything else ever again?
>> If the answer is no, spinning it out seems like a bit of overkill, but
>> if you think its useful I won't object to it either way.
> 
> It wouldn't be the first. See iirfilter and how it's used by aac_encoder
> only, or tpeldsp and svq3_decoder.
> 
> The context, the functions and most of the files were already separated
> from dca, so it's IMO cleaner to have it this way.

Applied it without making it a separate "component". Less useful but
still cleaner, especially on x86.