[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH][RFC] avcodec/avutil: Add timeline side data

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 02:53:52PM +0100, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
> On 3/29/2018 2:13 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Well, no unless we want a single unified API that represents information
> > about timespans.
> > We can use completely unrelated systems to handle the virtual timeline,
> > the codec and related changes, chapters, ...
> 
> Personal opinion time: From design and use perspective, an single unified
> API to handle all of those things an their edge cases sounds like a
> nightmare to use and write.

That is not what i meant

what i meant is to align the APIs that handle timespan related information
and not have totally different interfaces for each.
For example they might share the same struct in some cases to deliver data
They do have in common that they all in/export data for a sequence of timespans

Also the function interfaces could be aligned to each other

They also may have in common that some formats store the data interleaved
at the time and some store it in a main header.
If this is so the case of collecting all this info from the whole
duration of a file to store it in the output file header at the start
may be a situation common to multiple of these.
A similar API may allow simplifying whichever way we handle this

Iam sure there are more advantages of having APIs which deal with
similar types of data to be similar ...

thx

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