It is not used in any filters currently and is inherently evil. If
passing binary data to filters is required in the future, it should be
done with some AVOptions-based system.
It is pretty hopeless that other considerable projects will adopt
libavutil alone in other projects. Projects that need small footprint
are better off with more specialized libraries such as gnulib or rather
just copy the necessary parts that they need. With this in mind, nobody
is helped by having libavutil and libavcore split. In order to ease
maintenance inside and around FFmpeg and to reduce confusion where to
put common code, avcore's functionality is merged (back) to avutil.
Signed-off-by: Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>
Patch by Nolan L nol888 <=> gmail >=< com.
See thread:
Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Port gradfun to libavfilter (GCI)
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:18:14 -0500
Originally committed as revision 25942 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk