[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH V5 0/2] Add libsvt HEVC encoder wrapper

[Paul B Mahol]

On 12/23/18, Helmut K. C. Tessarek <tessarek at evermeet.cx> wrote:
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> On 2018-12-22 23:35, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>>> API will be stable, from my understandings, but not soon.
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>> If this is correct - I have no idea - the patch should be sent
>> again once the api is believed to be stable.
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> In that case I'm wondering why libaom has a wrapper in ffmpeg. Just a
> few days ago they broke the wrapper.
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> What about dav1d? Yes, developers said it shouldn't be used yet, but
> ffmpeg still has a wrapper that had to be changed several times already.
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> I don't have a proplem that this has happened, but telling someone
> that an API has to be stable while there are clearly 3rd party libs,
> which APIs are not stable, in ffmpeg is rather a joke - not to say
> slightly inconsistent.

Completely agree, we should remove unstable wrappers.