[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]Mention that asyncts is deprecated

Derek Buitenhuis derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 19:55:40 CET 2013


On 2013-01-17 1:45 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>> -As an alternative, you can use @ref{aresample} to do 
>>> squeezing/stretching.
>>> +This filter is deprecated, please use @ref{aresample} 
>>> to do squeezing/stretching.
>>
>> It is not deprecated. It is unsupported by FFmpeg, 
>> since it uses libavresample. These are two distinct things.

Just s/deprecated/unsupported/.

> Sadly, I am not a native speaker, please provide 
> a better wording. Several users have already 
> reported problems with it, they should at least 
> get an appropriate documentation warning.
> 
>> Also, just to note, AFAIK, asyncts does some 
>> things aresample simply cannot.
> 
>>From a quick look, I couldn't find the respective 
> reports on trac - could you point me to them so 
> I can fix the keywords?

No trac ID, since it's from first hand experience.

For example, AFAIK, aresample cannot trim/pad an audio stream so that
it starts at a particular PTS (used in conjunction with -copyts, of course).
I happen to need this particular use case ;).

- Derek


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