[FFmpeg-devel] [Patch] hwaccel transocode broken

[wm4]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 23:50:03 +0100
Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

Yes.