[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec: only warn about hwaccel with frame threads

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

On 06.02.2016 18:55, wm4 wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Feb 2016 18:46:59 +0100
> Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> You're not constructive.
> 
> Even if that is true, neither are you.

I try to be constructive. The problem is that all proposed alternative
ways (change VLC to use one thread for hwaccel and fall back to more threads
if hwaccel fails; make libavcodec do this automatically) are rather
difficult to implement. While I would prefer such a solution, it can't
be used until it exists.

> You want to revert a change that
> was often discussed and found to be the best way to go about the issue,

No, this is not the best way. libavcodec automatically doing the right
thing would be.

> just because it's the way of least resistance for you.

I don't think arguing with you can be called 'way of least resistance'.

> While we normally would very much try not to break API users, including
> VLC, this case has a bit of a history. Don't forget the behavior of the
> VLC dev, who was never constructive about this either. On the Libav
> side he AFAIK kept claiming it was not his problem. When the change was
> made on the FFmpeg side, he just changed the VLC configure script to
> reject FFmpeg, instead of bringing up this issue anywhere.

So bad behavior of one developer justifies breaking the setup of thousands
of users?

>> I doubt you'd like being told that when a
>> change in ffmpeg broke mpv in a similar way and couldn't easily be
>> fixed there.
> 
> I doubt I could get a debian maintainer to waste the time of FFmpeg
> developers just because I don't want to adapt in a specific case.

Just don't waste the time and become constructive.

Best regards,
Andreas