[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec: Add AVClass to AVCodecParameters

[Nicolas George]

Le nonidi 29 floréal, an CCXXIV, Ronald S. Bultje a écrit :
> It's not for us (ffmpeg.c developers), it's for people using the ffmpeg
> libraries on other language platforms (e.g. python).

I think one of the cruxes of the issue is that we are (ab)using the AVOption
system for two different things: introspection and uniform access to
structure members for libraries and language bindings, and user interaction.

For introspection to work, all public fields of all structures that have
some need to be accessible. Libraries can make a few exceptions, and
therefore we can get away with one "almost" in the previous sentence, but
not two. We are nowhere near it and we will never achieve it. And we
probably would not want it anyway. Plus, the AV_OPT_TYPE system is way too
limited and the lookup is very inefficient.

Michael used the AVOption system as a quick way to give access to fields
that were not present in the fork without breaking ABI compatibility, but I
think this was a mistake, it would have been better to just write an
accessor function. Since we have dropped ABI compatibility with the fork, we
can forget all this now.

That leaves user interaction: the AVOption system was designed for that, and
works reasonably well for it.

Therefore, the relevant question should be: are there fields that need to be
accessible to the user in a generic way?

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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