Why two separate ffmpeg

[Fedor2]

I noticed inside UXP code two directories in the media containing ffmpeg code: libav and ffvpx, and they go to the different librarys.
libav though has fewer files.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Because that is how it is implemented.

[Fedor2]

Hmm, seems libav is used only for dom\media\webaudio, i moved all stuff into ffvpx, as deleted libav at all.

[Moonchild]

And as a result you have non-vpx code living in a vpx submodule. Congratulations. I hope you never have to debug this.

[roytam1]

Hmm, seems libav is used only for dom\media\webaudio, i moved all stuff into ffvpx, as deleted libav at all.

quoted from https://github.com/MoonchildProductions ... ME_MOZILLA :

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This directory contains files used in gecko builds from libav
(http://libav.org). The current files are from v11.3 of the library.
All source files match their path from the library's source archive.

Currently, we only use the fft portion of the library, and only on x86
based platforms. If this changes, configuration files will most likely
need to be updated.

and it is linked into lgpllibs.dll, which xul.dll unconditionally linked to.

making it link to mozavcodec.dll is just no good to me, since FFT/rdft routines are stable and small, while mozavcodec.dll is big, that hurts startup time.

[Fedor2]

since FFT/rdft routines are stable and small, while mozavcodec.dll is big, that hurts startup time.

This is reasonable. It is left find where else it is used.