[FFmpeg-devel] Embedded documentation?

[Diederick C. Niehorster]

On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 12:13 PM Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Three years ago, I shared some brief thoughts about embedding the
> documentation in the libraries. For example, that would allow GUI
> applications to open help dialogs about specific options.
>
> To see what it would need, I wrote the following header. I did not work
> any further, because groundwork need to be laid first. But now that it
> was mentioned in another thread, I think it is a good idea to show it,
> to see how people like it.
>

+1. I assume a lot of the AVDocNode can be automatically populated from its
corresponding option? We'd not want to maintain, e.g. option names and
aliases in more than one place.

Cheers,
Dee