[vlc-devel] [RFC] Activate dav1d by default

Konstantin Pavlov thresh at videolan.org
Sun Mar 29 21:57:05 CEST 2020


On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 07:34:30PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am quite annoyed by distributions still not packaging dav1d, since the library is now out since 1.5y+.
> And that means our AV1 decoding on Linux is shitty. 
> 
> Since we are supporting AV1 and we're promoters of the format, and dav1d is a Videolan project, I think this is a good idea to make it by default.

I very much agree we should promote our projects, so please enable by
default all VideoLAN projects we use, like medialibrary, libplacebo and
others, in subsequent commits.

> If distributions want to disable it, they can, but this is their responsibility.

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