Hi Guillem,

On 30.06.2015 23:14, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> On 30.06.2015 21:40, Guillem Jover wrote:
>> Perhaps, but the comment at
>> <http://sources.debian.net/src/mpv/0.9.2-1%2Bffmpeg/common/av_log.c/#L229>
>> was not very soothing, so that was one additional reason for the bug. :)
> 
> Hmm, this comment is indeed a bit worrisome.
> But I'm not sure I understand the reasoning given there. As far as I know
> the accessor functions are only necessary for API that is not present
> in Libav (in order to be ABI compatible after Libav merges, as the comment
> says). So whether or not one uses the accessors shouldn't make a difference
> for compatibility with Libav.

I've investigated this a bit more and it seems that the only potentially
problematic FFmpeg-only API used by mpv is AVFrame->metadata, which mpv
accesses via av_frame_get_metadata. [1]
Thus I think the comment is just wrong and the warning should be removed.

Best regards,
Andreas


1: 
https://sources.debian.net/src/mpv/0.9.2-1%2Bffmpeg/video/filter/vf_lavfi.c/#L309

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