[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavf: add ffprobe demuxer

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Hi,

On Mon, 31 Oct 2016, at 07:20, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le decadi 10 brumaire, an CCXXV, Jean-Baptiste Kempf a écrit :
> > I strongly disagree with this patch too.
> 
> If you, or anyone else opposing it, has counter-arguments, please give
> them. Otherwise, the patch should go in once it is clean.

ffprobe is not a video/audio format.
It has no public specification, is made up and completely arbitrary
format.
It will not be used by the large majority of applications.

I understand very well the need, I disagree it should go inside the
(de)muxing library.

Best regards

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