Hi Nicolas, On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 11:57 AM Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote:
> Le quartidi 14 thermidor, an CCXXV, Davinder Singh a écrit : > > As we've been planning since forever ( > > https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/libavcodec/snow.h#L182, > > http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2016-July/197095.html) we need > > Motion Estimation code that could be shared in codecs and motion filters. > > > > The idea is to make the Motion Estimation idependent of Encoders more > > specifically - AVCodecContext. > > This is a very good idea. > > > So, I’ve moved motion estimation and me_cmp code to a new location - > > libmotion <https://github.com/dsmudhar/FFmpeg/tree/gsoc17/libmotion>. I > > think it’s a good idea to make a new lib instead moving it to > > libavutil (as discussed > > previously < > http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2016-July/197161.html>). > > That way we can make it independent of everything else in FFmpeg. > > But this is not. Please no, not yet another library! > > A separate library like that will at the beginning only be used by the > handful of hard-core developers. Unless it meets a wide success very > fast, with very useful tools available immediately, it will soon be > forgotten ("seems interesting, but not yet mature, I'll come back and > see in six months") and start bitrotting as soon as you have moved to > something else. > > In particular, the main policy of FFmpeg is to not depend on external > libraries for core features. Therefore, if your project is a separate > Just to be clear, it won't be "external" library like OpenCV... > library, it will definitely not be used by FFmpeg codecs like you wish > in your first paragraph. > > If you want a fighting chance of a project that is not stillborn, I > think you need to make it part of FFmpeg, and make sure important > .. it will be part of FFmpeg like libavfilter, just a new module - libmotion. > components of FFmpeg use it as soon as possible. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas George > [...] Regards, -- Davinder Singh _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
