[FFmpeg-devel] Notes about avdevice

[Don Moir]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 01:47:37PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 07:20:00AM -0500, Don Moir wrote:
> > >On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 03:38:20AM -0500, Don Moir wrote:
> > >>>Don Moir <donmoir <at> comcast.net> writes:
[...]
> > Cameras
> > get plugged in and unplugged and would need to update list
> > periodically. I am not going to do something like try to read the
> > av_log just so I can use avdevice. But getting the list in a modern
> > way is easy along with the device resolutions and should be
> > implemented in a modern way instead of something that goes back 30
> > years.
>
> If it's so easy then design and propose an API. Hyperbole just
> pisses people off and doesn't get anything done.

> My suggestion would be to think if the avoption stuff could be extended
> to query valid option values even for more complex options like a
> device parameter.

> Thats an interresting idea

I am not here to piss anyone off. I already have it implemented and if you want that code I will give it. I don't have the time to 
go thru all the details of putting it into ffmpeg.

If you don't want it or don't care and don't want to listen to reason, then don't.