On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 02:18:13PM +0100, Josh de Kock wrote: > Hi, > > There is no point of having these output devices as all the > functionality is contained in the 'ffplay' tool. If people wanted to > integrate these devices in their own programs instead of using the > ffmpeg tool then they are far too constrained for proper control, not to
> mention output devices have been quick hacky in libavdevice for a long then please write a better API / lib / system > time. There are three patches attached to deprecate the SDL2, OpenGL, > and libcaca devices. Once a better system exists with these features this can be deprecated. requiring each user application to directly support each API of each of these systems is very inconvenient for all but the large applications Indeed the large applications benefit from the absence of a single API as they eliminate competition from smaller apps which are unable to maintain support for a wide range of output devices. I think a good API that supports a wide range of in/out devices would be very usefull for smaller/simpler applications using the libs [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Dictatorship: All citizens are under surveillance, all their steps and actions recorded, for the politicians to enforce control. Democracy: All politicians are under surveillance, all their steps and actions recorded, for the citizens to enforce control.
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