[FFmpeg-devel] flag naming conventions?

Carl Eugen Hoyos cehoyos at ag.or.at
Sun Mar 10 01:19:14 CET 2013


René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin <at> gmail.com> writes:

> To come ack to the platform-dependency criticism I got a 
> day or so ago for using size_t ...
> libavutil/timer.h uses gethrtime in some cases. I don't 
> know what that function returns, but I kind of suspect it 
> to be a time unit - and if so, the STOP_TIMER av_log 
> output becomes incorrect.

man suggests it returns hrtime_t which is int64_t

> > Yes, please don't forget to read 
> > http://ffmpeg.org/developer.html
> 
> What, again? :)
> 
> If only it explained how to generate a patch file without 
> first doing a commit (that has to be undone somehow
> to create the next iteration of your patch) :-/

The reason you have to do a commit is that it makes 
pushing your patch to the repository significantly 
easier (remember that time is the only limiting 
factor in FFmpeg development).

Carl Eugen



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