[FFmpeg-devel] [GSoC] FFserver further development direction

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 at 23:18 Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Josh de Kock (2018-04-25):
> >             If anything, this should have never been added and a suitable
> > external library should have been picked.
>
> This opinion should have been expressed three years ago. It was decided
> then that lavf deserved a HTTP server. It is done.
>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Loss_aversion_and_the_sunk_cost_fallacy

It was objected heavily to at the time and if I recall correctly we agreed
to review its presence later.

Kieran