[FFmpeg-devel] 5.0 release

[James Almer]

On 12/13/2021 4:47 PM, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> Quoting James Almer (2021-12-13 20:04:34)
>>
>>
>> On 12/13/2021 3:05 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>>> On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, at 16:25, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>> If you know of any major issues which need to be done before the release do them
>>>> now. If you know of any issues which are release-blocking list them in a reply
>>>> here please.
>>>
>>> Maybe the audio channel layout would be nice to settle before?
>>
>> There are two or three requests/blockers, by Nicolas and i think Lynne.
>>
>> - The request to have either a string to give custom channels a name, or
>> at least an opaque pointer per channel that can be used for such
>> purpose. This has seen opposition from Anton.
> 
> I do not oppose an opaque id, as long as it's not too big. I do oppose a
> string though, as it would require extra allocations per channel.
> 
>> - The request to wait for a new string handling API to land and be used
>> for the relevant functions in this set. This has not seen opposition
>> from anyone yet, but it's not very feasible if said new API is not yet
>> in a state beyond a draft/RFC. It would delay this set indefinitely. We
>> can use AVBPrint in the meantime, and name the functions in a way that
>> reflects it, to leave the cleaner names for the future API.
> 
> I said this before, but let me state again that I oppose this for
> various reasons.

Using AVBPrint (or any other string API altogether), or introducing 
functions that will eventually be replaced?

> 
>> - The request to allow a channel ID to be present multiple times. This
>> has seen opposition from Anton and Hendrik (API user), and, if i
>> understood it correctly, support from Marton.
> 
> This is already possible. The disagreement is in how much explicit
> support for it should exist.
>