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microsoft / FFmpegInterop

This is a code sample to make it easier to use FFmpeg in Windows applications.
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Drop support for Windows 8.1 and WP 8.1 and use VS2017 platform toolkit #206

Open lukasf opened 6 years ago

lukasf commented 6 years ago

These are really old platforms. Microsoft stopped supporting WP8.1 already, user base on Windows 8.1 is very small and shrinking. I do not think that anyone will start a new project targeting Windows 8.1 or even WP 8.1. Windows 10 is the way to go for all new apps. Let's move on.

Having to maintain these platforms makes adding new features really difficult. Not only would we have to install VS2015 (a whooping 26GB install with all required packages) just to check that they build, but theoretically, we would also have to test new features on Windows 8.1 and even WP 8.1, which is just not feasible anymore.

So I propose to drop support for these platforms for future development. A support branch can be created, so those who still do care about these platforms (anyone there?) can still build it. Project files for Windows 10 version should be updated to use the VS2017 platform toolkit.

Please let me know what you think.

brabebhin commented 6 years ago

Agreed.

reego-fr commented 6 years ago

It makes sense

ph-life commented 5 years ago

Disagree. For example, our products uses Windows 8.1/7.0 SDKs and these products compatible with Windows 7 SP1.

ionutdanila commented 5 years ago

@lukasf @mcosmin222 @reego-fr I updated the BuildFFmpeg.bat script to work only with Visual Studio 2017. It also builds the libraries for ARM64. You can get the script from here. You can also get the latest compiled libraries for UWP (FFmpeg 4.1 Release) from here.

lukasf commented 5 years ago

@ionutdanila On my fork, there is also a VS2017 version of the build file. We are just updating the fork to correctly work with FFmpeg 4.1. There were some breaking changes. You might run into problems when using FFmpeg 4.1 with the MS version of the lib.

ionutdanila commented 5 years ago

@lukasf I already updated the source code for FFmpegInterop to work with FFmpeg 4.1. I also added a sample application to see the NuGet Package in action.

lukasf commented 5 years ago

@ionutdanila I invite you to check out my fork. It is a much improved version of the lib. Readme is now updated to show improvements, also FFmpeg 4.1 is integrated.