[Ffmpeg-devel] AVOptions

[Joshua Varner]

On 9/12/05, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 05:59:08PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 01:18:40PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > >
> > >>Hi
> > >>
> > >>as everyone certainly already knows ffmpeg/libav* has a nice&new AVOption
> > >>API, comments & suggestions for improvements are welcome
> > >>
> > >>and dont complain in a month that its not useable in your application, if
> > >>you know of an issue or have a suggestion to improve it then post it now
> > >
> > >
> > > and if anyone has suggestions for better names for some options now is the
> > > right time as compatibility is slightly broken anyway
> > >
> > > and a few specific questions
> > > currently all AVOption constants are upper case so for example '-idct SIMPLE'
> > > is that ok, or do people want lowercase for them?
> >
> > I guess lowercase are more readable but is just a matter of taste.
> 
> i think so too. i find uppercase painful to read, and more tedious to
> type (and it looks like you're chatting on aol...)
> 

Why not make them case insensitive, Option processing will only
happen once so it's not expensive. Does anyone think they'll ever
want "SIMPLE" and "simple" to be different options?

Josh