[FFmpeg-devel] AVFrac deprecated

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Thu Dec 13 22:44:40 CET 2007


On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:56:03PM +0100, Thorsten Jordan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> AVFrac is listed as deprecated in avformat.h with the additional comment
> that one should use rather AVRational. However AVRational has limited
> range using only int's, whereas AVFrac.val can hold much bigger numbers,
> which is needed for timestamp generation when writing e.g. .MP4 containers.
> What's the point with that comment to use AVRational?
> Should it rather be replaced by int64_t base and AVRational extension (f
> = base + AVRational) - but it would be very similar to current AVFrac
> define.

the idea was to replace int64_t + rational by int64 * AVRational 
but there are problems with this so maybe the deprecated should simply
be removed


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