[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] enc is not a good name for a decoder context

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:27:32PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Stefano Sabatini
> <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> > On date Wednesday 2009-12-30 00:14:31 +0100, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> >> On date Tuesday 2009-12-29 01:21:13 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> >> > avctx
> >>
> >> Mmh.. no I don't believe that's a good name either, try to ask what
> >> that could mean to someone which never looked at the FFmpeg source...
> >> dec_ctx or even codec_ctx are way more intelligible names IMO...
> >
> > Ping?
> 
> I agree anything is better than enc. AVCodecContext already tells us
> it's a avctx. I'd go for dec also, maybe decctx.

dec is highly ambigous it can be a AVCodec, AVCodecContext or some struct
private to ffplay.c or even a char * 
avctx is much clearer
and you only know the type when you look it up not when you see a
variable used somewhere, this takes time and makes reading code
harder

also iam maintainer of the file, making it hard to read for me is not
a good idea at all
thats besides that avctx is very widespreadly used for AVCodecContext
starting a bikeshed rename in ffplay is really silly
and renaming all avctx in all decoders to dec is also silly because
dec or decctx are very ambigous in a decoder.

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