[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add AVFilter.next field

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Saturday 2009-10-24 23:23:31 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 01:40:29AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > this simplify the code and should also simplify the av_filter_next()
> > function which I'm going to implement, making it O(1) rather than
> > O(N), and making the registration management similar to that
> > implemented in the rest of libav*.
> > 
> 
> > I don't know why the registration mechanism has been implemented like
> > this in lavfi, so I may be un-aware of some specific reason.
> 
> The idea was that AVFilter should be possible to be put into read only
> and shareable memory. A next that is written to breaks this.
> 
> note, i dont have a strong oppinion on this being worth the extra complexity

Neither do I, so I think that I'll leave to you or to Vitor the
choice, if there is some test I could do to help the choice let me
know.

Regards.
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