[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Built-in documentation API

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 6:48 PM Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu> wrote:
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> On Sun, 23 Aug 2020, Nicolas George wrote:
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> > Since the idea of documentation built in the libraries seems popular,
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> I don't like the idea of compiling the full help text into the binaries.
> Libraries are already huge binaries, adding the help text increases the
> binary size even more. If we really want the ffmpeg API to access help
> text, it should read it from help files installed with the libraries.
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I would at least want it to be optional. I have no way for users to
specify options other then provided and documented through an UI, and
thus it would never be accessed. And I'm sure this applies to many
(playback) UI applications.

- Hendrik