[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ffplay: convert ffplay to use SDL2

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2016-09-14 17:59 GMT+02:00 Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>:
> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 05:34:05PM +0200, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >> 2016-09-12 20:58 GMT+02:00 Josh de Kock <josh at itanimul.li>:
> >> > From: Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu>
> >> >
> >> > Depends on the other SDL patches.
> >>
> >> This works fine on my antique desktop system (where an
> >> extra repository provides sdl2 2.0.3) but not on my laptop
> >> that I did not consider eol so far, it only has 2.0.0.
> >
> > did it get autodetected and failed ? (it should not i think)
> > was it forced enabled and then failed ? (maybe it should
> > print an error if the sdl2 version is not recent enough)
>
> What I meant is:
> On a system that I did not consider old before testing
> this patch ffplay suddenly stops working making
> FFmpeg development much harder.


Is ffplay really that critical in testing ffmpeg?

Ronald