[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] enc is not a good name for a decoder context

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Tuesday 2010-02-16 23:14:47 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:05:35PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > On date Tuesday 2010-02-16 03:08:35 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:27:32PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Stefano Sabatini
> > > > <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> > > > > On date Wednesday 2009-12-30 00:14:31 +0100, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> > > > >> On date Tuesday 2009-12-29 01:21:13 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > > > >> > avctx
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Mmh.. no I don't believe that's a good name either, try to ask what
> > > > >> that could mean to someone which never looked at the FFmpeg source...
> > > > >> dec_ctx or even codec_ctx are way more intelligible names IMO...
> > > > >
> > > > > Ping?
> > > > 
> > > > I agree anything is better than enc. AVCodecContext already tells us
> > > > it's a avctx. I'd go for dec also, maybe decctx.
> > > 
> > > dec is highly ambigous it can be a AVCodec, AVCodecContext or some struct
> > > private to ffplay.c or even a char * 
> > > avctx is much clearer
> > > and you only know the type when you look it up not when you see a
> > > variable used somewhere, this takes time and makes reading code
> > > harder
> > > 
> > > also iam maintainer of the file, making it hard to read for me is not
> > > a good idea at all
> > > thats besides that avctx is very widespreadly used for AVCodecContext
> > > starting a bikeshed rename in ffplay is really silly
> > > and renaming all avctx in all decoders to dec is also silly because
> > > dec or decctx are very ambigous in a decoder.
> > 
> > I don't see how dec_ctx can be ambiguos, DECoder ConTeXt is its
> > natural interpretation, avctx is much more ambiguous (Audio Video
> > ConTeXt, context of what?).
> 
> dec_ctx does not clarify audio vs video.
> and decoder vs. encoder is clear in a player
> 
> 
> > 
> > That said, I agree that bikeshedding on this would be silly and I'm
> > reasonably fine with avctx so if you prefer avctx over dec_ctx I'll
> > apply that.
> 
> i prefer avctx

Applied.
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