[XviD-devel] xvid MB bug

Rémi Guyomarch xvid-devel@xvid.org
Wed, 18 Dec 2002 08:09:13 +0100


On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:00:45AM +0100, Edouard Gomez wrote:

> Anyway, i think it is a very bad idea to use dev-api-3 in mplayer. We
> are just starting to make releases so everyone has a library to trust
> and you decide to choose the bleeding edges bugs and api changes.

Mencoder didn't "switched" to dev-api-3. It's only a compile-time
detection and additionnal code compiled. The exact same code can be
used with the stable tree / release version.

> Structures passed to the encoder (and the decoder?) are not binary
> compatible with the API 2.1 used in 0.9.x series.

Yes, I know. I will add a big warning printed at compile-time and
run-time.

> Anyway, it's time to bump up the API version in dev branch as it's
> already different.

Yes, this is badly needed for detecting version mixup with dynamic
libraries.

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Rémi