[x265] Libav/FFmpeg Wrapper

[Derek Buitenhuis]

On 2/10/2014 6:47 PM, Tom Vaughan wrote:
> Hi Derek,
> We have looked at this, and we have done some work for internal test
> frameworks.  We will reach out to directly to coordinate and to support
> you.

There's no reason this has to be private. In fact, it shouldn't be. It's
writing an open source wrapper for an open source library.

Also, can you please tone down the corporate speak. This is an engineering
list.

> As I mentioned on the dev mailing list, our team has taken a look at x265
> FFMPEG integration.  We are having an internal conversation about how best
> to proceed.  We definitely would like to see this get done, and we
> appreciate your offer to do the work.

It's a very minimal amount of work to add a wrapper on my part, for something
likely useful; no thanks needed.

> Steve and I will try to get a more definitive answer on how we can work
> together to get this done ASAP.  Some of the MCW developers involved are
> in China, and they are just getting back from the Chinese New Year
> holiday, and so it may take a day or two to figure out who is doing what,
> what has already been done, etc.

... What? There already exists code to add it to Libav, and it would be maybe
40 minutes of work for me to finish it. This is a tiny effort, and does not
require more than one person. Since it seems nothing has been done internally,
I will write and submit it tomorrow (I am in GMT, so it is night here right now).
I'm not going to waste my time doing corporate style convoluted
too-many-people-for-one-task "coordination"... There's no who does what, just
who writes it.

Patches will show up tomorrow on ffmpeg-devel and libav-devel for review.

Cheers,
- Derek