On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 8:50 AM Jan Ekström <jee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 4:35 PM Christopher Kennedy > <ckenn...@ellation.com> wrote: > > The C OpenCV API is not recommended so this does the OpenCV part > > in C++ which allows it to be fully utilized and supported. So that seems > > better to me than using the API OpenCV won't really support and doesn't > > allow usage of img_hash (it is NOT in the C API of OpenCV, impossible to > use). > > Just noting my two cents about the OpenCV C API as I've noticed > regarding people trying to utilize the opencv capabilities already in > FFmpeg on the user IRC channel: > > It seems like upstream OpenCV actively has broken it quite a long time > ago, and the earlier code we have utilizing OpenCV doesn't even > compile with current OpenCV versions. > https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/8438#issuecomment-288638915 > > Thus, unless the OpenCV project's view on C APIs changes, I don't see > it being worthwhile adding any new code utilizing the C APIs that only > work with old versions of OpenCV. One way of possibly changing this is > to advocate for C interfaces at OpenCV, but for that the actual > advocates/users of OpenCV usage should raise on the walls regarding > that. > > So while we heavily dislike having C++ APIs as dependencies, I think > if we want to have (current) OpenCV usage around, then modules > utilizing C++ should be permitted (pretty sure we already have some of > those in the code base for other libraries that have been deemed > important enough by someone). > Yes the decklink stuff uses .cpp files too. Which is another good case where it is either have or don't have support over C++. > > Jan > _______________________________________________ > 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". -- --- Christopher Kennedy Ellation Video Infrastructure - Staff Engineer ckenn...@crunchyroll.com 747-666-7123 _______________________________________________ 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".
