[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec: Remove libutvideo support

[Stephen Hutchinson]

On 2/12/2016 11:51 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 2/10/2016 4:33 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>> I'm fine by this, but it would be nice to have SIMD and
>>> 10 bit support in decoder.
>>
>> I agree with the latter.
>>
>> I'd argue, however, we don't actually support 10-bit via the
>> wrapper anyway, since you can't even build the library. ;)
>
> I tested the following (from scratch):
> $ git clone git://github.com/qyot27/libutvideo
> $ cd libutvideo
> $ ./configure && make
> make install (as root)and then build FFmpeg with
> libutvideo support.
> The resulting binary played the sample from ticket #4044
> and was at least 10% more efficient than current FFmpeg
> (see ticket #3651).
>

That's because I've set the default branch to the last
good version.  If you want to see what prompted that
decision nearly a year ago, try using the buildsystem
branch.

Beyond that, even the 'good version' 15.1.0 has also been
broken for ages on OSX, with or without asm enabled, and may
not even compile anymore with Clang.