[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/3] lavc/bsf: add a null bitstream filter.

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
>> The filter can not be disabled so that applications can rely on it.
>>
>
> It probably does generally no harm to include it since its tiny,
> however it would still show up in configure and be disable-able in
> configure (since the list is generated from the extern const bitstream
> filter entries in bitstream_filters.c) - it would just not actually
> disable it.
> I think this is rather confusing.
>

Also, something I forgot, there is a plan to generate the
bitstream_filters array from configure instead of hardcoding it, which
would make special cases not governed by the usual rules a bit more
annoying.

- Hendrik