[vlc-devel] [RFC] Remove SDL_image codec plugin?

[Steve Lhomme]

On 2020-09-29 20:04, Francois Cartegnie wrote:
> Le 29/09/2020 à 19:51, Marvin Scholz a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if we can remove the SDL_image codec module (and
>> therefore the SDL and
>> SDL_image dependencies in contrib) as it seems most formats are
>> supported anyway by
> 
>> so it might be needed in some special corner-cases but unfortunately its
>> not
>> documented what these specific BMPs are that ffmpeg can not handle so I am
>> not sure how we could test if its still needed.
> 
> Their draft spec specified BMP as the file format for embedded images...
> that's quite vague.
> 
> Anyway, we have only 1 USF sample, and it does not contain any
> associated pictures. No one can tell.
> 
> I would just assume that ffmpeg had 12 years to handle properly those
> BMP formats.

Also if this causes any problem to anyone then we will know what is the 
real issue. But I suspect it will never happen.