Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Unified string / stream API

2021-02-25 Thread Nicolas George
We have more and more users demanding a better output for the side information generated by filters and other components than savage log output. That probably means moving the formatted writer features of ffprobe into proper libavutil APIs. But ffprobe only outputs to standard output, a proper API

[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Unified string / stream API

2020-12-31 Thread Nicolas George
This mail is about a project I have to make FFmpeg's API and infrastructure more convenient. For a common introduction, see this thread: https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2020-December/274167.html int av_foo_to_string(char *buf, size_t buf_size, AVFoo *foo); int av_bar_to_string(char *buf,