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

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On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 17:21:46 +0000
Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/30/2017 5:11 PM, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > I'm in favour of deprecating and eventually removing it. As Mike used to
> > say: you need to break eggs to make omelettes.  
> 
> I'm in favour simply because I don't know of a good reason to *not*
> deprecate it? Does it have ASM, modes, APIs, etc. that swresample
> lacks? I know it makes supporting both Libav and FFmpeg more cumbersome,
> but I, and pretty well anyone else I know have long since stopped
> caring about doing that.

Reunification, cleaner code, and also I'm still using the libavresample
API (libswresample through ifdeffery - I hoped that to be a temporal
thing until libavresample was enabled by default).