[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avutil/frame: Move new field to the end of AVFrame

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Plenty previous releases moved fields that were marked as "no direct
> access", usually because libav added a new field above the
> ffmpeg-exclusive ones (like AVFrame.channels, which is a common
> candidate), and we didn't do such a song and dance to accomodate
> everyone.

> I asked this in other threads before - why this time?

I thought the difference is that for all other fields 
we offered accessors that the API users could use to 
access the fields.

Carl Eugen