[FFmpeg-devel] SWS cleanup / SPI Funding Suggestion

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 11:16:50PM +0000, Cosmin Stejerean via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
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> > On Oct 13, 2023, at 4:00 PM, Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > TBF this is in part why i was suggesting a new library - I feel like sws is
> > affected by bad brading because of these caching issues and imprecise
> > conversion, and a new clean api in a new library would make a lot of sense
> > in my opinion.
> 
> I think the branding issue would solve itself in short order if the actual implementation of swscale started to be good. My concern with adding a new library is that we'd end up in a situation where we have both swscale and a new library side by side for some extended period of time. 
> 
> By comparison adding cleaner APIs to swscale and then slowly strangling the old APIs (along the lines of Niklas' proposal) would allow for a more gradual transition that has a higher likelihood of success compared to a full rewrite IMO.

+1

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