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
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