[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Remove libpostproc

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM Michael Niedermayer
<michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 11:41:35AM +0100, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM Michael Niedermayer
> > <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Andrew
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 05:54:54AM +0300, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
> > > > ср, 14 мая 2025 г., 03:55 Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu at gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > вт, 6 мая 2025 г., 02:27 Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>:
> > > > >
> > > > >> This will be available in https://github.com/michaelni/libpostproc
> > > > >> either as a separate library or a ffmpeg source plugin whatever turns
> > > > >> out more convenient to maintain
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Congratulations, you broke  building cinelerra-gg with ffmpeg.git despite
> > > > > our best efforts :/
> > > > >
> > > > > Why all this code movement?!
> > > > >
> > > > > For whom it "simple"?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > For some reason this mail not arrived into my inbox (spam filter ate it?)
> > > >
> > > > https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2025-May/343192.html
> > > >
> > > > =====
> > > >
> > > > The idea of course here is to expand this to filters and other
> > > > things. Which again is trivial, nothing really is needed except
> > > > people simply following this style of a source plugin
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > =====
> > > >
> > > > I found this concerning. Because does this mean ffmpeg will be fragmented
> > > > like Python or Rust into million pieces users supposed to held together?
> >
> > libpostproc never really fit in FFmpeg,
>
> libostproc implements part of ISO/IEC 14496-2 (MPEG-4)

Lots of libraries implement parts of MPEG code.

On a technical level it does not match the code quality of FFmpeg.
Furthermore it was something forced into the project from Mplayer.

Kieran