[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Deprecate av_opt_show() in favor of a new function av_opt_show2(), which allows to specify only a subset of all the options to show.

[Aurelien Jacobs]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 02:33:20AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Wednesday 2010-09-01 13:18:43 -0300, Ramiro Polla encoded:
> > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Stefano Sabatini
> > <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> > > On date Wednesday 2010-09-01 17:53:32 +0200, Aurelien Jacobs encoded:
> > >> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 12:53:10AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > >> > diff --git a/libavcodec/opt.c b/libavcodec/opt.c
> > >> > index 128d95d..7c8a9c1 100644
> > >> > --- a/libavcodec/opt.c
> > >> > +++ b/libavcodec/opt.c
> > >> > [...]
> > >> >
> > >> > +#if LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR < 53
> > >>
> > >> Please don't use LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR directly.
> > >> Instead, define a FF_API_OPT_SHOW in avcodec.h.
> > >
> > > What's the advantage of such approach?
> > 
> > It has been discussed lately on the list. It's easier to
> > enable/disable specific updates.
> 
> I have about 10000 mails in my ffmpeg-devel mailbox, please provide a
> link or resume the explanation, in this case it looks to me just like
> an useless complication.

See thread "[PATCH] #define LAVF_API_MAX_STREAMS" started on August 11.

Aurel