[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/libaomenc: remove the experimental flag when using libaom 2.0.0 or newer

[James Almer]

On 5/27/2020 2:46 PM, James Zern wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 6:40 PM James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Alternatively, we could remove support for libaom 1.0.0, since it's pretty much
>> unusable. But unfortunately both current Debian Stable and latest Ubuntu LTS
>> ship it, so i'm not sure if it would be wise.
>>
>> Any opinions?
>>
> 
> Those were based off of the normative branch so I agree with you it's
> pretty unusable. For LTS at least if there has been an incompatible
> ffmpeg release since their snapshot I don't think a new one with
> libaom disabled would get pulled in. That said, I'm ok with leaving
> 1.0.0 support through another release and when we see 2.0 get picked
> up by distros. This patch is lgtm depending on other people's
> preferences.

The idea is that if a library version is supported in one version of
ffmpeg, there should be a good argument to drop it in future versions.
So while libaom 1.0.0 is extremely slow, it (in theory) still produces
valid output, is supposedly not insecure, and is the only version
currently shipped by non rolling release distros.

Will apply this soon unless someone objects.