[FFmpeg-devel] Leftovers

Paul B Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 19:45:36 CET 2012


On 1/28/12, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 02:04:08PM +0100, Reimar Doeffinger wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I noticed that avformat.h seems to still contain av_new_stream and
>> several documentation references to it, but its implementation
>> was removed from utils.c.
>> Which one is it supposed to be?
>> (Note that I have a dislike for avformat_new_stream, by forcing
>> users to manually set the "id" it makes things really inconvenient,
>> as very well demonstrated in one of the patches introducing it where
>> that was forgotten. I find it a bit silly to expect our users to
>> use an API that even we manage to use wrongly for no apparent good
>> reason).
>
> Personally iam in favor of providing compatibility with the old API
> where its easy

Until then, I'm for removing leftover.


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