[FFmpeg-devel] What is FFmpeg and what should it be

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi Vittorio

On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 03:44:13AM +0200, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 3:04 PM Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> 
> > Kieran Kunhya (12023-07-28):
> > > FFmpeg doesn't implement TCP in userspace, it doesn't implement the
> > > WiFi protocol etc etc. Different layers are delegated to different
> > > programs.
> >
> > Hi. You seem to be discussing this in more good faith than I previously
> > imagined, so I will try to tone done the irritation in my mails.
> >
> 
> sorry for jumping in mid discussion, but shouldn't that be the case always?
> 
> But if people started to routinely use FFmpeg on some kind of
> > bare-metal microcontroller where network hardware exists but the
> > official network stack is too big to share the space with FFmpeg, and if
> > somebody were to propose a limited network stack based on lavu's
> > cryptographic primitives, then it would totally make sense to accept it.
> >
> 
> no? that sounds a terrible maintenance burden in terms of both code size
> and security issues, nobody wants that!
> what could be a viable compromise is *maybe* providing the hooks where
> needed where custom io and callbacks can be implemented, but afaict there
> are plenty of those in ffmpeg already
> 
> FFmpeg has been successful because it relied on pragmatism rather than
> > dogmatic adherence to principles. Let us continue that way.
> >
> 
> ffmpeg has been successful because points of contentions were resolved with
> consensus (most of the times) and not by sheer number of emails or email
> length about the topic. I am not even familiar with this avradio thing but
> if the community seems so against it, let's maybe find another solution
> (separate library, repository, tool etc) instead of wasting time and energy
> over the same points.

the code already is in a seperate repository. And is basically isolated
in a single demuxer and single input device.
Some people still complain that it exists

About the community i do not know what the majority wants. About users
iam fairly confident that they prefer having the option to use it than
not having the option.

thx

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