[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avutil/map: replace passing Compare functions by flags

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 08:22:18PM +0000, softworkz . wrote:
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>
> That's a good change, because it was in fact confusing.
> 
> Another confusing part of the API is the need for specifying the 
> lengths of key and value - and I finally figured out why it 
> didn't retrieve any elements: those values need to be strlen + 1
> 

> I think the final API should not require any length params
> (or at least it should have a function that doesn't need it)

its there because people asked for support for non string data
ill add a
int av_map_add_strings(AVMap *s, const char *key, const char *value, int flags);

thx

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