2017-10-13 0:12 GMT+02:00 James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com>: > On 10/12/2017 6:50 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: >> 2017-10-12 23:45 GMT+02:00 James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com>: >>> On 10/12/2017 6:41 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote: >> >>>> also video4linux is gone >>>> >>>> ./configure >>>> config.h:#define CONFIG_V4L2_INDEV 0 >>>> >>>> and with a branch with all that reverted: >>>> ./configure >>>> config.h:#define CONFIG_V4L2_INDEV 1 >>> >>> v4l2 is not autodetected. >> >> I tested several old versions, for the last 10 years, >> v4l2 indev was auto-detected. >> >> From tests with really old versions I know that >> video4linux (1) was always auto-detected (or >> auto-enabled). >> >> Carl Eugen > > configure has the line > > --enable-libv4l2 enable libv4l2/v4l-utils [no] > > And before the commit i mentioned, it had the line > > libv4l2_indev_deps="libv4l2" > > If you check alldevices.c, there's no indev called "libv4l2_indev", only > one called "v4l2_indev". > Since the latter had no dependency on libv4l2, it was of course always > enabled by default. I changed that in 734ed38931 (see ticket #6729, > where doing that fixed a failure). > > So that indev being auto-enabled might have been a mistake all this time.
Sorry, what are you talking about? v4l2 was added in 2006 and auto-detected ever since. Before 2006, there was already v4l (1) which was auto-enabled since forever afair. There is a helper library called libv4l2 that - luckily - is not auto-detected and shouldn't be. Carl Eugen _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
