[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Remove SDL2 output devices

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Marton Balint (2024-02-04 11:11:12)
> > The 'pipe:' output can be used with a real video player such as mpv, vlc, or
> > even ffplay. For cases where the user was an application using the API they
> > should supply their own renderer.
> 
> Yeah, but I never liked when people piped uncompressed data... Not 
> everything that the devices support can be serialized,

For instance? What do these devices support that e.g. NUT does not?

> it is extra CPU, latency of the receiving app reading from pipe is a
> question...

People keep saying this in defence of these devices, but never support
such claims with any data. I have doubts this is an actual problem in
practice.

> I'd be a lot more happy with this if we'd offer some replacement which has 
> no issues. Maybe a libplacebo based outdev.

I don't think it's possible to have such a replacement, neither should
we try. Muxer API is simply the wrong abstraction for playback.

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Anton Khirnov