[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Per-frame metadata

[Alexander Strasser]

Hi,

Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Tuesday 2011-04-12 20:38:18 +0200, Alexander Strasser encoded:
> > Nicolas George wrote:
[...]
> > > 
> > > libavutil was my first choice, as it has absorbed libavcore; but Michael
> > > seemed to prefer libavcodec.
> > > 
> > > If you think this is better in libavutil I will make the change.
> > 
> >   Just for the record:
> > 
> >   I still dislike the merge of libavcore into libavutil and I dislike
> > adding more stuff on top of that, too.
> > 
> 
> >   There should be better solutions like making lavfi purposefully
> > depend on lavc or something I didn't yet think of.
> 
> Of course this is possible, but I also want to keep the dependencies
> of lavfi as low as possible, also logically metadata doesn't seem
> related to (only) codecs.

  But for our purposes it is related IMHO and other users would depend
on lavc. Additionally I have the feeling there is more stuff in lavc
of which lavfi or its filters could make use of.

> > I know this has its drawbacks as well, but maybe something can be
> > done about it.
> 
> If you want to keep lavu small, there is still the possibility to make
> it modular, and strip whatever is not needed through some configure
> magic, possibly unsafe (from the ABI/API compatibility standpoint) but
> should work fine for self-contained projects with very strict
> footprint requirements (e.g. micro-devices).

  I don't think adding this kind of complexity is needed. If you have
such low footprint projects, static linking should be fine and only
pull in the objects used.

  Alexander