[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: deprecate libpostproc and pp filter

[Josh de Kock]

On 2018/04/27 0:19, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> 2018-04-27 1:08 GMT+02:00, Josh de Kock <josh at itanimul.li>:
>> The postproc library is only used in a single filter
> 
> Is libswscale used in more filters? Are you planning to
> deprecate it?

No, libswscale does not suffer from the same issue of being a secondary 
filter library. See for example how libavresample is the secondary 
resampling library, which has been deprecated for being regarded as 
worse than libswscale. libpostproc is just another filtering library 
(which was shoved into lavfi instead of its filters being moved into 
lavfi). Some of the postproc filters seemingly have equivalents in lavfi 
(just going off of names), so I think removal of postproc while making 
sure equivalent filters will be available is the best way to solve this.

> Seriously: The library is needed for compliance with
> multimedia standards, it should not be deprecated.

I'm unsure of which multimedia standards you refer to.

-- 
Josh