[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Reviewing merges

[James Almer]

On 4/24/2017 12:50 AM, Aaron Levinson wrote:
> For example, I submitted a patch to fix a bug with QuickSync interlaced
> video to ffmpeg-devel on 4/13/2017.  The change mostly reverted some of
> the QSV code in ffmpeg back to an earlier state.  Interlaced video QSV
> encoding used to work in ffmpeg, but this was broken in October 2016 as
> a result of a merge with libav.  However, I was asked to submit the
> patch to libav instead because QSV development is more active on
> libav-devel.  I did that, and the patch finally made it into libav
> today.  And, my hope is that it will be merged into ffmpeg--that is, it
> seemed like the most readily available path to getting this code into
> ffmpeg was to contribute it to libav first.

I'd say poke Mark Thompson (jkqxz on irc) to push them here as well. No
real need to wait until we get to that point with the merges, especially
since they were originally submitted here.