2018-06-17 19:10 GMT+02:00, Lou Logan <l...@lrcd.com>: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2018, at 8:25 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: >> >> Wouldn't it make more sense to remove the extremely >> long name at the next bump if consistency is needed >> here? > > I don't think it matters too much to also have the alias video4linux2, or at > least I can't think of any good reasons to remove it. > > One reason for this trivial patch was so the v4l2 in/out-devs can be listed > on one line in "ffmpeg -devices" or "ffmpeg -formats" like (all?) the > others. One user reported that he was unaware of the outdev because he only > saw the indev listed (possibly looking only for video4linux2).
Thank you for the explanation. Carl Eugen _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
