[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Release 6.1
Nicolas George
george at nsup.org
Thu Sep 28 18:33:33 EEST 2023
Rémi Denis-Courmont (12023-09-28):
> 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.).
Fortunately, I know the history of our projects better than you:
First, FFmpeg was already a feature-rich self-contained program when
MPlayer started using it.
Second, MPlayer did not start using it FFmpeg as a library, it started —
and still does in part — using it as embedded code.
Too bad your attempt at disproving my point just proves it.
> 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.
So, they can “just disable it” and ignore it. They have no ground to
oppose, and neither do you.
> FWIW, Fabrice Bellard didn't bundle all his initially hobby projects together.
> Several of them became popular.
He bundled together the things that fit nicely together. Once again an
argument in favor of SDR integration.
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Nicolas George
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