[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] AVFrame ABI compatibility improvments

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 09:38:55PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> This patch series makes it possible to access AVFrame fields from
> applications independant of their name & position.
> Normally we would just do this by using AVOptions but AVFrame does
> not have a AVClass at its begin in the fork and my patch to add one
> was ignored.
> If just we add a AVClass all fields would shift their position, which
> would defeat the idea of improving ABI compatibility.
> Which brings us to this patchset which should make it possible for us
> to keep adding fields and merging libavs additions without breaking
> ABI. That is as long as applications use av_opt_ptr() to access the
> fields. Which arguable only makes sense with a shared lib of libavcodec.
> With static lib direct access is all fine ...
> 
> A possible improvment would be to provide a more complete set of read
> write functions instead of just a get the pointer. This is a
> patch welcome and can easily be done later if someone wants.
> Ill apply this patchset within a day or 2 unless there are objections
> 
> We will also need an update to the docs which ill do later if noone else
> does it ...

patchset applied
docs added

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Many things microsoft did are stupid, but not doing something just because
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would be bankrupt already.
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