[FFmpeg-devel] APIchanges, avcodec_open2 and 0.8.2 "Love"

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:06:54PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 09:39:54PM +0200, Johannes Weißl wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > I have a question regarding the APIchanges file: It says avcodec_open2()
> > and avformat_find_stream_info() are available since lavc 53.6.0 / lavf
> > 53.3.0, and this check works for the git version of FFmpeg. But your
> > latest release 0.8.2 has API versions lavc 53.7.0 / lavf 53.4.0 and does
> > not include those two functions.
> > 
> > Since it is already hard for application programmers to keep up with the
> > changing API, could you maybe update the APIchanges file to reflect this
> > inconsistency? That would be great!
> 
> The APIchanges file is pretty much unmaintained
> A patch fixing this one case or more is welcome

the version where avcodec_open2() was introduced was
lavc 53.8.0 in ffmpeg and that is consistent with the 0.8.2 release
its the APIchanges file thats wrong, like i said its not really
maintained

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