[FFmpeg-devel] Sorry state of AVOptions

[Nicolas George]

Paul B Mahol (12024-07-04):
> Modern humanoids use GUI interfaces and there text interface is reserved
> only for actual text - STRING AVOptions and some aliases for other
> AVOptions types.

GUI can only exist for types that are known by the application or the
GUI toolkit it uses. If you are using a 2026 FFmpeg with an application
from 2024, all the types introduced in FFmpeg between 2024 and 2026 will
be and cannot have a specific GUI, unless they are trivial enumerations.

This is why you need powerful text manipulation even with GUIs.

-- 
  Nicolas George