[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Make ffmpeg -formats print codec long names

[Måns Rullgård]

Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org> writes:

> Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>
>> On date Tuesday 2008-05-13 18:38:30 +0200, Michael Niedermayer
>> encoded:
>> > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:34:46PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> > > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:42:44PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>> > > > On date Sunday 2008-05-11 21:58:01 +0200, Michael Niedermayer
>> > > > encoded: [...]
>> > > > > Ive no oppinion on this patch, if someone wants it he can
>> > > > > apply just some thoughts ...
>> > > > > does it fit in 80cols? did it previously? do we care?
>> > > > 
>> > > > Longest line of the Codecs section (with patch applied) is 79
>> > > > cols, and no the bitstream filters list is way longer than 80
>> > > > cols.
>> > > 
>> > > I like the patch and applied it.
>> 
>> Thanks, I needed this in this period of "bad karma" on this list ;-).
>> 
>> > > Stefano, note that some codecs still seem to lack long names
>> > > (mdec and a lot of pcm/dpcm/adpcm codecs).  Time to get to work ;)
>> > 
>> > btw, IMHO all the long names should be under #ifndef CONFIG_SMALL
>
> I also like this idea.
>
>> If you confirm that I can provide such patch after the completion of
>> all the missing long_names (the same should be done for consistency in
>> libavformat).
>
> Indeed, I think it can be done after the completion of all the missing
> long_names.
>
> And I guess you should use a macro to avoid adding 2 more lines
> everywhere (#ifdef/#endif).

That idea occurred to me as well.

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