[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add WebM to the Matroska demuxer name

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:14:38PM -0400, Alex Converse wrote:
> >> Furthermore if you have a problem with a libavformat demuxer why not
> >> fix it rather than maintain your own set of demuxers only for mplayer
> >> that other players can't share.
> >
> > Because my time is not unlimited? Sorry, but that question is about as stupid
> > as asking "why don't you just fix all FFmpeg bugs?".
> > Or did you fail to notice that I _have_ been fixing quite a few issues
> > in order to get there?
> 
> Good for you, I don't understand why FFmpeg is being asked to bend
> over backwards for MPlayer's hacks.

It isn't, I can just change the string in MPlayer.
I'm saying there's a API and ABI change issue that I see a real chance
of affecting real-world applications.
If people don't care fine, but then we can just drop the effort of dealing
with version numbers.
If you just think it probably won't afffect enough applications to matter,
fine as well, but please at least add something somewhere (like APIchanges,
even if it isn't considered one) so that people have a chance to figure
things out without having to read this list.
And documenting that "name" is not really a name, particularly not in the meaning
of a mostly stable identifier would be helpful, too.