[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v2] avutil: add a Tile Grid API

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting James Almer (2024-01-21 22:03:10)
> I could remove the types and the union altogether and leave only the
> array even for uniform tiles if you think that simplifies the API, but
> seems like a waste of memory to allocate a rows x cols array of ints
> just to have the same value written for every entry.

My point is that the API can abstract away the details of how the data
is stored. You could have it always behave like a list of N rectangles,
while only storing as much information as is needed.

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Anton Khirnov