Missing library version information on website

[projectsymphony]

Hi,
In the download page where stable versions are listed, there is a gray box where all library versions are reported. However it doesn't seem to list libavresample. Could you add it's version there?
Thanks

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Please understand that there is nothing unstable about current FFmpeg git head (on the contrary).
I am not sure if it is a good idea to mention libavresample on the download page: It is mostly unmaintained and should not be used.

[projectsymphony]

Sorry but I don't understand, if it is not maintained it should be removed, if it is distributed it should be mentioned, or am I missing something?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

It is provided for compatibility reasons and cannot be removed.

[projectsymphony]

Ok so could you mention it? It would make life easier when hunting down for library versions, please.

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Did you consider to send a patch yourself?

[compn]

avresample is no longer on the (newly revamped) download page. closing ticket...

[Clément Bœsch]

Replying to cehoyos:

Please understand that there is nothing unstable about current FFmpeg git head (on the contrary).
I am not sure if it is a good idea to mention libavresample on the download page: It is mostly unmaintained and should not be used.

Correction here. libavresample is NOT unmaintained. The Libav project maintains it and we merge their changes. BUT, it is unsupported by the FFmpeg project because we have libswresample (since way before libavresample existed) and we use it almost everything. libavresample is less tested in the FFmpeg project.

As a result, we don't really want people to confuse the two and just keep it for compatibility with the Libav project.

But anyway, @projectsymphony, you are probably koda@libav, so I'll assume you are quite aware of this and just wanted to use that ticket as an argument.

[compn]

oops. you wanted it listed. i see.

the avresample version can be found in apichanges on libav site
​http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=doc/APIchanges

or for quick reference

2014-04-xx - xxxxxxx - lavr 1.3.0 - avresample.h

Add avresample_max_output_samples

2014-02-22 - 7e86c27 - lavr 1.2.0 - avresample.h

Add avresample_is_open() for checking whether a resample context is open.

2013-01-07 - 074a00d - lavr 1.1.0

Add avresample_set_channel_mapping() for input channel reordering,
duplication, and silencing.

2012-10-05 - e7ba5b1 - lavr 1.0.0 - avresample.h

Data planes parameters to avresample_convert() and
avresample_read() are now uint8_t instead of void.
Libavresample is now stable.

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Since I find this completely non-obvious:
This ticket was indeed created by Vittorio Giovara, avconv developer, and is now apparently used as an argument why avconv is better than FFmpeg.

[Timothy Gu]

@cehoyos: can you give a link?

[gjdfgh]

Why the flying fuck do we need two resample libraries?

Can someone explain this to me?

[Timothy Gu]

This ticket is not fixed. See comment 8.

[Michael Niedermayer]

The libavresample versions where missing as the lists where build from the ffmpeg command line output and libavresample is not build, enabled nor used by default, thus also doesnt show up in that case.

Fixed the download page in c9786c88c224e5f7dac1e9d3efc4344aab4093f8

there may be some still missing for the olddownload page, but that is missing other libs as well, improvments for the olddownload page are welcome!

[Michael Niedermayer]

Added missing libavresample versions to olddownloads too (017200dd6a71bfe9b81e8f69492336b4ad04efa2)