On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 7:40 AM <to...@rastageeks.org> wrote: > > From: Romain Beauxis <to...@rastageeks.org> > > This is a series of patches that fix and enhances libavdevice & have been > submitted multiple times in the past 6 months. In the series, the most > straightforward patches have been placed first in the list. > > While I have a lot of appreciation for all the solid work done in this > project, seeing the difficulty in getting them included makes one wonder what > is the status of libavdevice and if it is still actively maintained.
dshow gets used in windows land. Maintained, well... :) > > Typically, in the first patch, we fix the name/machine readable ID of dshow > devices. If the API has any significant use or maintenance, this should have > been caught and fixed much sooner. > > Next, the patches fixing the avfoundation device audio format and concurrency > models are absolutely required to get any use of this operator as audio input > and, quite likely, as video input as well. > > This is a lot of changes to make the library usable for a cross-platform > project and, with the lack of traction with the changes, this makes the > developer wonder if the library is ready for production use and if it > wouldn't be easier to implement hardware handling separately and plug into > FFmpeg after retreiving media data. > > There are more that I have noticed with the API, in particular the fact that > audio/video devices are labelled as video. I would love to submit changes to > enhance that aspect but, not with all these patches already pending.. > > Thanks for y'all consideration. > -- Romain > > Romain Beauxis (6): > Fix dshow device name/description > Use appropriate method for device discovery, fix crash with bogus > device index. > libavdevice/avfoundation.m: Allow to select devices by unique ID > libavdevice/avfoundation.m: use setAudioSettings, extend supported > formats > libavdevice/avfoundation.m: Replace mutex-based concurrency handling > in avfoundation.m by a thread-safe fifo queue with maximum length > Add AudioToolbox audio input device. > > configure | 5 + > doc/indevs.texi | 41 ++- > libavdevice/Makefile | 1 + > libavdevice/alldevices.c | 1 + > libavdevice/audiotoolbox.m | 8 +- > libavdevice/audiotoolbox_dec.m | 530 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > libavdevice/avfoundation.m | 547 ++++++++++++++++----------------- > libavdevice/dshow.c | 4 +- > 8 files changed, 843 insertions(+), 294 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 libavdevice/audiotoolbox_dec.m > > -- > 2.32.0 (Apple Git-132) > > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
