[FFmpeg-devel] [misc-parse-date PATCH 4/5] Deprecate parse_date() in favor of av_parse_time().

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:24:00AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Tuesday 2010-06-22 20:28:56 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 06:51:08PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > The new function is av_ prefixed and has a slightly more
> > > convenient/expressive interface.
> > 
> 
> > why is the timevalue (positive) or error (negative) nit returned normally?
> 
> AVERROR_INVALIDDATA: Cannot parse expression.
> 

> > or other question, in which case do we need to return negative
> > times/durations?
> 
> Negative durations don't make sense, but we can have perfectly valid
> negative times, for dates which pre-date the UNIX epoch.

let me guess, movie of the dinosours?

anyway, what about fixing the origin to predate the big bang, that should
avoid the need for negative times

oppinons?


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