[FFmpeg-devel] [Patch] hwaccel transocode broken

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2016-11-11 12:15 GMT+01:00 wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com>:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:19:08 +0100
> Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2016-11-11 9:03 GMT+01:00 Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com>:
>> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Yogender Gupta <ygupta at nvidia.com> wrote:

>> >> The included patch should fix.
>> >>
>> >
>> > ffmpeg.c is in the middle of some changes being merged, and once that
>> > is done ffmpeg_cuvid.c will need to be adapted to a new system. Until
>> > then, it would make everything easier if the code actively being
>> > modified by these merges is not modified by hackish fixes.
>>
>> Iirc, the documentation requires to only commit patches that do not
>> (knowingly) break functionality and imo, this implies that you should
>> quickly fix such bugs once they are reported. Or do I miss something?
>
> These are merges. Unless you volunteer to do the merges yourself (and
> properly please) you'll have to live with this.

Not sure I understand:
Do you mean merges are exempt from any rules and may randomly
break features or introduce bugs?

Carl Eugen