Aras PranckevičiusJun 24, 2025

What are ffmpeg developers known for? Writing lots of good assembly code, perhaps.
What are they less known for? Keeping their enum values stable :)

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/11641 (the comments are lovely, eh)

#11641 (ffmpeg 7.0 broke ABI for AVCodecID enum values) – FFmpeg

Show threadRichard Fine
@aras By "beginner's mistake" I can only assume the FFmpeg dev is referring to "trusting the FFmpeg devs" because holy shit.
Jun 24, 2025 at 10:34amWeb
Show threadDaniel GibsonJun 24, 2025
@superpig @aras
trusting comments in public headers - clearly a beginners mistake