[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Rename input/outdev symbols in libavdevice

Stefano Sabatini stefano.sabatini-lala
Wed Jul 1 22:17:36 CEST 2009


On date Wednesday 2009-07-01 12:51:24 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 01:07:20AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > On date Monday 2009-06-29 22:01:02 +0200, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> > > On date Monday 2009-06-29 21:13:36 +0200, Luca Abeni encoded:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > >> Hi, as in subject.
> > > >
> > > > Not that I care, but I think this was proposed when
> > > > libavdevice has been created, but it was rejected.
> > > 
> > > Do you remember the reasons for which it was rejected?
> > > 
> > > Appears to me a quite natural change...
> > 
> > Ping.
> 
> i for one do not remember why such a change was rejected in the past if it
> was so ...

Uh, after some digging in the archive I found this:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/59644/focus=59789

|Diego:
|> Which renames?  If it is about the format registration I disagree,
|> calling the input/output devices (de)muxers is suboptimal.
|
|Michael:
|they ARE (de)muxers, implement them as URLProtocol if you like but
|as long as they are demuxers they should be called demuxers

Yet I can't figure this out, as for me they just look like devices...

Regards.
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