[vlc-devel] [PATCH] vdpau: fix build with FFmpeg

[Rafaël Carré]

On 03/04/14 16:06, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:54:07 +0100, Rafaël Carré <funman at videolan.org>
> wrote:
>> On 03/04/14 15:35, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>>> No, this makes no sense since configure is already checking for
> versions
>>> with av_vdpau_alloc_context().
>>
>> Doesn't work with FFmpeg.
> 
> _Regardless_ of which of the two forks you use: The old versions of
> libavcodec that this patch adds support for have known bugs in hwaccel.

Decoding worked fine for me, however.

> As for which fork to use, I do note that David officially dropped support
> for libav on MacOS as the maintainer. Similarly, I do not support FFmpeg as
> the VDPAU maintainer. Not to mention that this was agreed at FOSDEM *and*
> confirmed on the asso list. 

I don't know what is "that" was agreed and confirmed.

> Also on libav, this patch is inconsistent, as
> it mismatches the version requirement of the code and the configure script.

Maybe but this is not the topic.