[FFmpeg-devel] Project orientation

Kieran Kunhya kierank at obe.tv
Sun Jul 5 16:20:35 EEST 2020


>
> So having something merged and maintained in ffmpeg has the benefit that
> more people have the ability to test the code and to develop it. Also it
> is more likely for the project to get developers if their code live in the
> core ffmpeg respository. I also don't see that maitenance burden to be so
> huge. And usefulness is also questionable. I think it is safe to say that
> having AMQP/ZMQ protocol support is much more useful then Lego Racers
> demuxer... (and I quite liked Lego Racers!!!).
>

Maybe also a full implementation of WebRTC? Or QUIC?
The problem is that libavformat is not a network stack and adding more
protocols means that it's harder and harder to build a real network stack.
See the way UDP has a hacky thread built in to stop packet loss.

Kieran


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