From 7af6cabcba434dfe47619866526bd3c739789d32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wm4 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 20:34:56 +0200 Subject: README: mention that Libav support is broken I hoped Libav would add the FFmpeg changes (codec/demuxer/filter list APIs), but nothing happened. So it's broken currently. --- README.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 14bfa9ab15..a0ff89b233 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ FFmpeg dependencies: (although there are security implications). - For good nvidia support on Linux, make sure nv-codec-headers is installed and can be found by configure. -- Libav also works, but some features will not work. (See section below.) +- Libav support is broken. (See section below.) Most of the above libraries are available in suitable versions on normal Linux distributions. For ease of compiling the latest git master of everything, @@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ or cross-compile from Linux with MinGW. See Generally, mpv should work with the latest release as well as the git version -of both FFmpeg and Libav. But FFmpeg is preferred, and some mpv features work -with FFmpeg only (subtitle formats in particular). +of FFmpeg. Libav support is currently broken, because they did not add certain +FFmpeg API changes which mpv relies on. ## FFmpeg ABI compatibility -- cgit v1.2.3