[FFmpeg-devel] Hello,

[Jean-Daniel Dupas]

Le 16 juil. 09 ? 21:27, Ronald S. Bultje a ?crit :

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Jean-Daniel
> Dupas<devlists at shadowlab.org> wrote:
>> First, an alias as defined by the Mac OS File Manager reference is  
>> a blob of
>> "data that is private to the Alias Manager". There is absolutely no
>> guarantee about what it contains. And so, the native API is the  
>> only futur
>> proof and reliable way to resolve it. That why I suggest to use it  
>> when
>> available.
>
> What bug are you trying to fix? I'm sure there's better ways

I was just trying to fix alias resolution, as it does not properly  
works, and QT file with alias are commonly used in broadcast industry.  
But I may also investigate to find a way to solve it without  
CoreServices.

> than
> linking against Core*, which basically hooks lavf into a million
> frameworks and libs.


Not a million, just the non-graphics one, but that probably enough to  
be a valid reason to avoid it.