[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavu: add an API function to return the FFmpeg version string

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:57:53PM +0200, wm4 wrote:
> This returns something like "N-73264-gb54ac84". This is much more useful
> than the individual library versions, of which there are too much and
> which are very hard to map back to releases or git commits.
> ---
> This actually just returns the contents of the already semi-public
> av_util_ffversion variable. But this variable is undocumented, has no
> public declaration, requires accessing variables over library
> boundaries (which is apparently frowned upon and/or causes various
> issues), and lacks av_export.
> ---
>  doc/APIchanges     | 3 +++
>  libavutil/avutil.h | 7 +++++++
>  libavutil/utils.c  | 5 +++++
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

applied

thanks

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