[FFmpeg-devel] [DISCUSSION] New iteration APIs, lavf and lavd

[Paul B Mahol]

On 3/19/18, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 02:59:54 +0000
> Josh de Kock <josh at itanimul.li> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The new iteration API to replace the old _next() is nearing the end of
>> it's completion with the lavfi patch on the mailing list and only one
>> outstanding issue:
>>
>> AVOptions would not be found for devices as there is no AVClass for
>> lavd. At the moment it would work if you were to still call
>> avdevice_register_all() because then devices get registered as formats
>> in the old API (which the child_class_next function still uses). When
>> the format_child_class_next() function switches to the iterate() API
>> it would no longer have access to devices and thus there would be no way
>> for av_opt_find() to find an option for devices. The fix for this is
>> simple, add an AVClass for lavd--fairly clean and unobjectionable.
>
> I really don't understand the problem, or why this AVClass crap is
> needed. It sounds absurd.

Yes, avdevice (non)API is absurd.