[FFmpeg-devel] documentation merge?

Stefano Sabatini stefasab at gmail.com
Sat Dec 15 15:49:20 CET 2012


On date Thursday 2012-12-13 13:35:00 -0700, Roger Pack encoded:
> On 11/19/12, Stefano Sabatini <stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On date Monday 2012-11-19 15:04:06 -0700, Roger Pack encoded:
> >> I noticed today that searching through this documentation:
> >> $ ffmpeg --help full
> >>
> >> for the word "dshow" (to figure out the option for -f dshow)
> >> reveals...nothing.  The word is not in the documentation.
> >> It does mention DirectShow, but that's hard to remember compared to
> >> the actual device name.
> >
> > That's because the class name is different from the context name. This
> > is a bit silly, since the class definition *must be* unique because of
> > a flawed design (it will loop forever otherwise, so you can't have
> > several instances sharing the same class). A patch for renaming the
> > class names is probably welcome, but that will imply merge issues.
> 
> Is this enough? Can I help in any further way?
> Thanks!

Thanks, applied.
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