On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 01:32:35AM -0700, Chris Robinson wrote: > FFmpeg doesn't have a particularly stable API or ABI. Dynamically > linking to it isn't that great of an idea because the .so number > version increments fairly often requiring at least a relink. The > audio decode routine is up to avcodec_decode_audio4 by now, and who > knows when avcodec_decode_audio5 will happen. The deprecated > functions do eventually get removed and distros can have them > compiled out. > > It's a really good lib if you can require specific versions, and > either static-link it or ship with the version you build with, but I > imagine the constantly-breaking ABI would be more of a headache for > a codebase like Wine unless you directly copy over the code (but > then, why not just take the decoder routines ffmpeg has and wrap > them into whatever Windows audio decoder API?). > Hmm, okay, thanks. We really only need the WMA decoder. That probably wouldn't be too hard to pull into Wine, but I was hoping to avoid it for all the obvious reasons. If it's our best option, though, then maybe that's what we should do. Andrew
