[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/3] doc/muxers: add fifo_test

[Andreas Rheinhardt]

Stefano Sabatini:
> On date Tuesday 2024-03-12 13:25:23 +0100, Andreas Rheinhardt wrote:
>> Stefano Sabatini:
>>> ---
>>>  doc/muxers.texi | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
>>>
> [...]
>> I do not think that this muxer should be publically documented. In fact,
>> I think it would be better if this muxer would only exist inside the
>> fifo_muxer test and if it were not included in a normal libavformat at all.
> 
> It looks like it is not possible to register a custom muxer outside of
> the list in allformats.c, or do I miss something? (OTOH it would be
> useful if one wants to registers a custom component, but this seems to
> be disabled at the API level).
> 

It is possible to use custom muxers internally: The AVOutputFormat*
pointer one passes to avformat_alloc_output_context2() need not be in
the list of output formats in the lists in allformats.c/alldevices.c. In
order to make the fifo muxer actually use a custom muxer, a slight hack
is needed. See
https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2024-March/323314.html

> The simple alternative is to simply not to document the muxer,
> although I don't like it very much, given that is output in the muxers
> list, so I think at least we want to mention that this is only used
> for testing.

Given that this muxer is dangerous (see the above commit message) it
should not be publicly accessible at all.

- Andreas