[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Release 6.1

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le keskiviikkona 27. syyskuuta 2023, 23.27.40 EEST Nicolas George a écrit :
> Michael Niedermayer (12023-09-27):
> > With SDR they do ask for a seperate library.
> 
> And they are being dishonest in that. Nothing successful starts as a
> library,

Strange, I thought FFmpeg really became popular as a back-end library for 
mplayer, before it was picked up by all other OSS multimedia at the time 
(gstreamer, VLC, Xine, etc.).

Force-feeding the SDR code to all FFmpeg packagers is not going to make it 
popular. Most of them will just disable it, especially if it brings new 
dependencies and/or doesn't work on the popular proprietary platforms.

FWIW, Fabrice Bellard didn't bundle all his initially hobby projects together. 
Several of them became popular.

> Demanding you make a separate library and a separate project is a
> hypocritical ploy to have you spend your time on boring things like
> build system and packaging, so that you lose interest in SDR and go back
> to doing useful things for them, like fixing fuzzing bugs and
> backporting the fixes.

To the contrary, I would much rather Michael uses his free time on his 
hobbies, including SDR-outside-FFmpeg. He can stick to spending his "time on 
boring things" if/when he gets paid.

That will add incentives for big tech corps to actually fund FFmpeg. This 
community, and presumably Michael in particular, are way too good at doing 
those "boring things" for free.

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