[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v4 1/2] libavcodec/libaomenc.c: Support gray input

[James Zern]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 8:14 AM James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/14/2020 9:26 PM, James Zern wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:57 AM Ryo Hirafuji <ryo.hirafuji at link-u.co.jp> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for the review!
> >>
> >> This should bump the micro version number in libavcodec/version.h.
> >>
> >>
> >> OK, I will bump up the version when the problem below is solved.
> >>
> >
> > If we want to go for compatibility with different versions of the
> > library we could move forward with the patch as is, though it would be
> > simpler to just treat this as a bug fix in libaom.
>
> Once a new version of libaom is tagged (Hopefully soon, since it's been
> almost two years since 1.0.0), we could set it as the minimum
> requirement and forget about 1.0.0, since that version is by now
> essentially unusable.
>

Thanks, that was my hope. I just wasn't sure how long we wanted to
wait before changing the minimum. You're right though, the only tags
are old and were more for bitstream compatibility rather than encoder
functionality. A full release should be coming soon [1] and with more
regular frequency after that.

[1] https://crbug.com/aomedia/2545