[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 01/11] avcodec: add avcodec_get_supported_config()

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2024-04-07 01:16:39)
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 08:57:11PM +0200, Niklas Haas wrote:
> > From: Niklas Haas <git at haasn.dev>
> > 
> > This replaces the myriad of existing lists in AVCodec by a unified API
> > call, allowing us to (ultimately) trim down the sizeof(AVCodec) quite
> > substantially, while also making this more trivially extensible.
> > 
> > In addition to the already covered lists, add two new entries for color
> > space and color range, mirroring the newly added negotiable fields in
> > libavfilter.
> > 
> > I decided to drop the explicit length field from the API proposed by
> > Andreas Rheinhardt, because having it in place ended up complicating
> > both the codec side and the client side implementations, while also
> > being strictly less flexible (it's trivial to recover a length given
> > a terminator, but requires allocation to add a terminator given
> > a length). Using a terminator also presents less of a porting challenge
> > for existing users of the current API.
> > 
> > Once the deprecation period passes for the existing public fields, the
> > rough plan is to move the commonly used fields (such as
> > pix_fmt/sample_fmt) into FFCodec, possibly as a union of audio and video
> > configuration types, and then implement the rarely used fields with
> > custom callbacks.
> > ---
> >  doc/APIchanges              |  5 ++++
> >  libavcodec/avcodec.c        | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  libavcodec/avcodec.h        | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  libavcodec/codec.h          | 19 +++++++++++---
> >  libavcodec/codec_internal.h | 21 +++++++++++++++
> >  libavcodec/version.h        |  4 +--
> >  6 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> If the API is changed, it should be to an API that allows externally
> maintained codecs.
> (it would result in more developers working on codecs)

????
This seems like a complete non sequitur in relation to this patch.

-- 
Anton Khirnov