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Remove dependency on libavdevice#1239

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@dimula73 dimula73 commented May 8, 2026

It seems like the actual usage of avdevice has been removed long ago and replaced with SDL.

It seems like the actual usage of avdevice has been
removed long ago and replaced with SDL.
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dimula73 commented May 8, 2026

I'm not very sure my understanding is right, but I haven't found any usage of avdevice by MLT internally. I have a feeling that this dependency is a legacy artifact from ~2011.

In Krita we have been building ffmpeg without avdevice and MLT worked fine until the recent dependency policy change in 604972b

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ddennedy commented May 8, 2026

MLT can use device input through the avformat producer.

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If you really want something like this, change the build to make it optional instead of removing it. For example, Shotcut supports these input devices through MLT: alsa, pulseaudio, v4l2, dshow, avfoundation.

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