[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] doc/plans: add AVWriter

Leo Izen leo.izen at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 17:55:01 EEST 2022


On 8/18/22 13:23, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022, at 23:49, Nicolas George wrote:
>> +An API that can be used everywhere a function needs to return a
>> string, or
>> +really an arbitrary buffer of bytes, and everywhere code needs to
>> build a
>> +string from parts. It needs to be fast and lightweight enough to be
>> used in
>> +tight loops, like once per frame, without limiting the size of the
> 
> How is that different from open_memstream?

I'm not sure open_memstream is available on all platforms, in particular 
I think it's missing on MinGW.

But otherwise, it looks like it, so maybe it makes more sense to just 
use a compatibility shimmy on windows?

- Leo Izen (thebombzen)


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