On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Vittorio Giovara <[email protected]> wrote: > AVCodecContext holds a lot of fields that are used seldom within > libavcodec, in most cases only to set options that apply to a single > family of codecs, or sometimes to completely unrelated codecs. > This was done before in the long past there was no codec private option, > and in fact nowadays global context options are rarely added (and only > when it really applies to something global), preferring to add codec > private options instead. > > This set (1 of 3) tries to go over each context field and to identify > which not-really-global options should be moved to private codec options. > The rationale is that after my changes options would have a much more precise > scope, as right now it is not possible to understand which option affects > which codec without looking at the source code. The (long term) improvement > would also be to have a more compact context, with less fields to document > > The option selection is a trade off between how widespread the option is > within libavcodec and how much it makes sense for an option to be global. > > Vittorio
ping on the set with the replaced - to _ -- Vittorio _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
