[FFmpeg-devel] Documentation: proposed changes in the structure

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 05:15:18PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer (12020-08-22):
> > iam not sure what extension you (plural) envission here but AVOption.help
> > can be extended without breaking API/ABI.
> > Consider if for example one wanted to add a filename, markdown or other
> > text string. AVOption.help is a zero terminated string. you can add
> > something after the 0 like a 2nd zero terminated string.
> > to know if that is there a flag can be added to the AVOption.flags
> > or AVClass.version can be used.
> 
> I will grant you that: we can extend AVOption.help. But it is very
> hackish.

of course, extensions to things where extensions where not planned before
often are

thx

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