[vlc-devel] [PATCH v4 1/7] libvlc: allow selecting the video hardware acceleration

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le perjantaina 13. maaliskuuta 2020, 14.28.32 EET Steve Lhomme a écrit :
> Pass a string matching one of the decoder device strings.

That's moving the problem. Now somebody hard-codes a string value, ends up 
breaking portability to other platforms or to future versions. And this is not 
a theoretical problem. I've seen a number of LibVLC app devs device to force 
acceleration on or off under false impressions.


If you make a LibVLC app for embedded devices, then sure, by all means, fine 
tune hardware acceleration, or really anything you want, to the hardware. 
Though that probably does not belong in the official upstream.

But if you're not doing "embedded", but just regular software for installation 
on hardware not in your control, then you really should not touch this. LibVLC 
might not know perfectly well what acceleration to use or not to use, but it 
knows better than you.

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