[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] option: allow to set slice_flags to video decoder

[Li, Zhong]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel [mailto:ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org] On Behalf
> Of Michael Niedermayer
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 6:30 AM
> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches
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> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] option: allow to set slice_flags to video
> decoder
> 
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 02:17:53PM +0800, Zhong Li wrote:
> > Make slice_flags setable as avcodec.h definition
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zhong Li <zhong.li at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  libavcodec/options_table.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/libavcodec/options_table.h b/libavcodec/options_table.h
> > index 12712fb541..5b9e344554 100644
> > --- a/libavcodec/options_table.h
> > +++ b/libavcodec/options_table.h
> > @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static const AVOption avcodec_options[] = {  #if
> > FF_API_PRIVATE_OPT  {"context", "context model",
> > OFFSET(context_model), AV_OPT_TYPE_INT, {.i64 = DEFAULT }, INT_MIN,
> > INT_MAX, V|E},  #endif -{"slice_flags", NULL, OFFSET(slice_flags),
> > AV_OPT_TYPE_INT, {.i64 = DEFAULT }, INT_MIN, INT_MAX},
> > +{"slice_flags", NULL, OFFSET(slice_flags), AV_OPT_TYPE_INT, {.i64 =
> > +DEFAULT }, INT_MIN, INT_MAX, V|D},
> >  #if FF_API_XVMC
> 
> This is incorrect, the slice flags specify user application support.
> A user cannot just override this

I am confused the slice_flags (as comment it is set by user) is listed in options table but can't be overrode in any case.
Should it be removed from the options table?

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