[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec: libdav1d AV1 decoder wrapper

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 5:46 PM Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, 29 Sep 2018, at 17:32, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 4:37 PM Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 29 Sep 2018, at 15:14, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> > > >  I'm still a bit annoyed that this wasn't even a consideration when it was
> > >
> > > How do you know it was not considered?
> >
> > I took BBB by his word when he said so.
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> You really think that the person that wrote ffvp9 (and merged it inside libavcodec) and a large part of dav1d, and who is a large contributor to FFmpeg, did not consider whether it was better to start inside libavcodec or as an external library?
>

Just to make sure, I was specifically talking about hardware
acceleration (which my entire post was more or less about), which
according to Ronald was not considered in the reasoning here.

- Hendrik