[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v4 2/5] lavfi/showinfo: Support AV_FRAME_DATA_DOVI_METADATA

Niklas Haas ffmpeg at haasn.xyz
Sat Dec 11 16:45:06 EET 2021


On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 13:58:53 +0100 Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt at outlook.com> wrote:
> Why are you using so many av_log calls? Every one of them poses the risk
> of the output being torn apart by other av_log calls (with a different
> logctx); and of course, it also leads to lower performance and bigger
> binary size.

I copied the style that I observed in the rest of the file, Compare
dump_dynamic_hdr_plus or dump_sei_film_grain_params_metadata. They all
use the same pattern of one av_log call per fragment of text. I agree
that it's poor style, but it appears to be the status quo.

Ps. With the inclusion of ffprobe support, I no longer particularly care
about the vf_showinfo patch making it in. Maybe that filter ought to be
deleted and replaced by some common mechanism based on the ffprobe code?


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