[FFmpeg-devel] Sorry state of AVOptions

[Paul B Mahol]

On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 8:34 PM Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Paul B Mahol (12024-07-04):
> > Modern humanoids use GUI interfaces and there text interface is reserved
> > only for actual text - STRING AVOptions and some aliases for other
> > AVOptions types.
>
> GUI can only exist for types that are known by the application or the
> GUI toolkit it uses. If you are using a 2026 FFmpeg with an application
> from 2024, all the types introduced in FFmpeg between 2024 and 2026 will
> be and cannot have a specific GUI, unless they are trivial enumerations.
>
> This is why you need powerful text manipulation even with GUIs.
>
>
Nobody sane uses text manipulation in GUIs.

You just 'invented' this nonsense now.


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>   Nicolas George
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