Re: Maintaining video package

[PrasannaKumar Muralidharan]

Hi Crane,

> Please submit patches to the patch tracker.  Alternatively, you can
> have a clone of the repository somewhere and ask for pull requests
> (since the repository is mercurial, the two most know services are
> sourceforge and bitbucket).  I find that such pull requests work better
> than uploading patches to the tracker.
>
> After some reviewed patches we can revisit giving you push access to
> Octave Forge.

Will do that. I am in no hurry to get push access to Octave Forge repository.

> Unless you mean dropping support for unreasonably old versions, yes.
> Do not support only the latest version.

Is it enough to support FFMpeg version that was released a couple of
years ago? Is there any recommendation on this?

> On another note, it may be better to forget about the video package
> and simply try to make Matlab compatible implementations of video
> functions.  This will attract more attention, will be more reviewed,
> will be more distributed, and will have more users.  That's what
> happened with the audio package.  It's you call though.

That makes sense. Prefer to do this.

Thanks and regards,
PrasannaKumar