[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Remove the ffserver program and the ffm muxer/demuxer

[Rostislav Pehlivanov]

On 26 October 2016 at 23:33, Andreas Cadhalpun <
andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 27.10.2016 00:16, Rostislav Pehlivanov wrote:
> > On 26 October 2016 at 22:48, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/26/2016 6:19 PM, Rostislav Pehlivanov wrote:
> >>> Also removes url_feof from libavformat.v which should have been
> >>> removed long ago and changed the multipart jpeg boundary tag to
> >>> ffmpeg rather than ffserver (it's arbitrary).
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>> diff --git a/libavformat/libavformat.v b/libavformat/libavformat.v
> >>> index c961cd8..47d5ddc 100644
> >>> --- a/libavformat/libavformat.v
> >>> +++ b/libavformat/libavformat.v
> >>> @@ -1,19 +1,6 @@
> >>>  LIBAVFORMAT_MAJOR {
> >>>      global:
> >>>          av*;
> >>> -        #FIXME those are for ffserver
> >>> -        ff_inet_aton;
> >>> -        ff_socket_nonblock;
> >>> -        ff_rtsp_parse_line;
> >>> -        ff_rtp_get_local_rtp_port;
> >>> -        ff_rtp_get_local_rtcp_port;
> >>> -        ffio_open_dyn_packet_buf;
> >>> -        ffio_set_buf_size;
> >>> -        ffurl_close;
> >>> -        ffurl_open;
> >>> -        ffurl_write;
> >>> -        #those are deprecated, remove on next bump
> >>> -        url_feof;
> >>>      local:
> >>>          *;
> >>>  };
> >>
> >> No, this can't be done until the next major bump. url_feof is even
> guarded
> >> by an scheduled FF_API define.
> >>
> >> The rest should be ok, but anything that implies a library ABI break
> can't
> >> be done just yet. Wait for other comments and/or testing. This removes a
> >> lot of things after all.
> >>
> > Fixed version attached without removing url_feof (apparently that's meant
> > to go in the next bump, wasn't forgotten)
>
> No, none of the symbols can be removed without a major bump. The simple
> reason
> is that a ffserver built from the 3.1 branch still has to work with the
> libavformat from the 3.2 branch.
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas
>
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Thanks for telling me,
Attached patch will only remove the ffserver program and documentation
relating to it.
The ffm demuxer/muxer will be removed with the next bump like url_feof.
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