On Fri, 04 Mar 2016 08:27:54 +0100
Anton Khirnov <[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoting Hendrik Leppkes (2016-02-26 10:53:24)
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Anton Khirnov <[email protected]> wrote:  
> > > Deprecate the current bitstream filtering API.
> > > +/**
> > > + * Iterate over all registered bitstream filters.
> > > + *
> > > + * @param opaque a pointer where libavcodec will store the iteration 
> > > state. Must
> > > + *               point to NULL to start the iteration.
> > > + *
> > > + * @return the next registered bitstream filter or NULL when the 
> > > iteration is
> > > + *         finished
> > > + */
> > > +const AVBitStreamFilter *av_bsf_next(void **opaque);  
> > 
> > Other iteration functions we have just take the return from the
> > previous call as a "state" (ie. the previous BSF in this case), that
> > seems much more sensible than some weird ptr-ptr-opaque value.
> > Keeping it in line with existing API would be a big bonus (ie. just
> > like av_bitstream_filter_next worked).
> >   
> 
> The problem is that unlike the other APIs, the bsfs are stored in an
> array instead of a linked list (to avoid global registration). So an API
> like you want would have quadratic complexity instead of linear. It's
> probably not a big deal, since we're unlikely to have hundreds of bsfs,
> but it feels ugly.
> 

And you want to change that later again? Hiding the implementation
details seems like a good idea in any case, but this feels a bit
awkward.
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