[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/4] avfilter: add AVFILTER_FLAG_META

Anton Khirnov anton at khirnov.net
Wed Nov 24 15:42:53 EET 2021


Quoting Hendrik Leppkes (2021-11-23 11:38:44)
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 11:31 AM Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net> wrote:
> >
> > This flag allows distinguishing between filters that actually modify the
> > data and those that only modify metadata or gather some stream
> > information.
> 
> A "meta" filter has me associate it with other concepts, maybe
> spelling out "metadata" would be better?

Maybe. I named it FLAG_METADATA first, but then started wondering
whether people wouldn't associate it with just AVFrame.metadata rather
than all other 'meta' fields.
More opinions on this (and also the exact definition of this flag)
welcome.

-- 
Anton Khirnov


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