[FFmpeg-devel] Deprecation of visual output devices

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 02:18:13PM +0100, Josh de Kock wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There is no point of having these output devices as all the
> functionality is contained in the 'ffplay' tool. If people wanted to
> integrate these devices in their own programs instead of using the
> ffmpeg tool then they are far too constrained for proper control, not to

> mention output devices have been quick hacky in libavdevice for a long

then please write a better API / lib / system


> time. There are three patches attached to deprecate the SDL2, OpenGL,
> and libcaca devices.

Once a better system exists with these features this can be deprecated.
requiring each user application to directly support each API of each
of these systems is very inconvenient for all but the large applications

Indeed the large applications benefit from the absence of a single API
as they eliminate competition from smaller apps which are unable to
maintain support for a wide range of output devices.

I think a good API that supports a wide range of in/out devices would
be very usefull for smaller/simpler applications using the libs

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