[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavr: deprecate the entire library

[Tobias Rapp]

On 25.11.2017 18:31, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
> On 11/25/2017 2:40 PM, Clément Bœsch wrote:
>> Maybe "libavresample is not maintained by the FFmpeg project and will be
>> dropped at the next major bump. Please use libswresample instead."
>>
>> And it probably needs a longer explanation somewhere (website/news/...)
> 
> All API functions should be properly marked as deprecated in the headers.
> 
> Relying on a stderr warning to help migrate API users is silly, who is
> going to be watching stderr using a /library/?

+1

Please avoid the AVStream.codec -> AVStream.codecpar scenario. I don't 
remember how often I was asked by users looking at the logs how they can 
avoid the "Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is 
deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead" warning.

Regards,
Tobias