[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 0/3] libhdcd and things

[Paul B Mahol]

On 8/23/16, Burt P. <pburt0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 7:52 PM, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A couple comments about the library.
>>
>> -The name hdcd_decode2 is still used in some places after your rename
>> commit, like the installed header and main c file.
> That is intentional. I want to keep the code there compatible with
> foo_hdcd, with my additions all optional. foo_hdcd just drops
> hdcd_decode2.{c,h} in, it doesn't use the shared library.
> I've added a line to README.md that specifies the include line to use.
>
>> -Does every struct currently defined in the installed header need to be
>> there? Most if not all of the stuff in both hdcd_state_* structs kinda
>> look like it could be internal, much like it currently is in af_hdcd.c
> There could possibly be a simpler api that exposes less, but again,
> foo_hdcd looks into those structures directly, I want to remain
> compatible there. If you look at README.md, you should see that the
> api is very simple to use as it is, even with the large exposure in
> the header. The logging callback, detection, analyze mode, are all
> optional features. The library does build as a windows dll, but I
> don't know that the maintainer of foo_hdcd will be interested in that.
>
>> You can play around with the API until you tag a first release.
> I will do that soon.
>
>> -Make the flags field int and update the relevant function signatures.
>> You may not intend to add new flags now, but you may in the future, and
>> uint8_t is too small for that.
> Perhaps, ok.
>
>> -Make sure it builds a shared library and symbols are visible.
> It does build and work as a shared library as I far as I have tested
> it, which is everything I can think of. Is there something specific
> that is not visible or working?
>
>> -Some doxy for the public functions would be nice.
> I will add some code comments for that.
>
> Thanks for your comments, any more are welcome.
>

So you basically saying that foo* something will not use this lib, but
lavfi will?

What is point of lib than?