[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v4] lavr: deprecate the entire library

[Rostislav Pehlivanov]

On 30 December 2017 at 15:15, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:59:19 +0000
> Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Deprecate the entire library. Merged years ago to provide compatibility
> > with Libav, it remained unmaintained by the FFmpeg project and duplicated
> > functionality provided by libswresample.
> >
> > In order to improve consistency and reduce attack surface, as well as to
> ease
> > burden on maintainers, it has been deprecated. Users of this library are
> asked
> > to migrate to libswresample, which, as well as providing more
> functionality,
> > is faster and has higher accuracy.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker at gmail.com>
> > ---
>
> Still against. I'm hoping both libraries can be merged in the future,
> and removing it would work against this goal.
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The facts speak for themselves - libswresample is better in every way and
there's nothing we want ported from libavresample. If you think otherwise -
send a patch or at least structural critique of how libswresample could be
improved. There's still 2 years until the code is removed and even then
it'd still be in git, bitrotting as it currently does.

I'm still intending to apply this patch in a few days.