On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 13:37:18 -0500 Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It serves absolutely no purpose other than to confuse potentional > Android developers about how to use hardware acceleration properly > on the the platform. Both stagefright itself, and MediaCodec, have > avcodec backends already, and this is the correct way to use it. > MediaCodec as a proper JNI API. > > Furthermore, stagefright support in avcodec needs a series of > magic incantations and version-specific stuff, such that > using it actually provides downsides compared just using the actual > Android frameworks properly, in that it is a lot more work and confusion > to get it even running. It also leads to a lot of misinformation, like > these sorts of comments (in [1]) that are absolutely incorrect. > > [1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/29362353/3115956 > > Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenh...@gmail.com> > --- > I am certain there are many more reasons to remvoe this as well. I know > its own author despises it, and I know j-b will same things to say. > > I have CC'd the person listed in MAINTAINERS for this set of code as well. > > Please discuss, and keep discourse civil and avoid ad hominems, etc. > --- +1 Yes, we should probably have Android support, but then we should use the preferred APIs. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
