Re: [FFmpeg-devel] The case for a good string API

2022-08-15 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 04:57:55PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Stefano Sabatini (12022-06-17): > > I was thinking about mempool (and no, I don't think it's really > > neeeded for this use case). > > > > I still had to read the implementation, now I think I got what this is > > about. > > You h

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] The case for a good string API

2022-06-17 Thread Nicolas George
Stefano Sabatini (12022-06-17): > I was thinking about mempool (and no, I don't think it's really > neeeded for this use case). > > I still had to read the implementation, now I think I got what this is > about. You have touched the main difference between AVWriter and BPrint. BPrint is a specif

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] The case for a good string API

2022-06-16 Thread Stefano Sabatini
Hi Nicolas! On date Thursday 2022-06-16 17:47:40 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Stefano Sabatini (12022-06-15): > > Hi, and sorry for the long delay (I'll comment soon about the AVWriter > > API). > > Thanks. I was starting to despair that somebody else gives a damn about > it. > > > Before jump

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] The case for a good string API

2022-06-16 Thread Nicolas George
Stefano Sabatini (12022-06-15): > Hi, and sorry for the long delay (I'll comment soon about the AVWriter > API). Thanks. I was starting to despair that somebody else gives a damn about it. > Before jumping to the discussion, probably it's good to think a bit > about the bprint.h API and its limit

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] The case for a good string API

2022-06-15 Thread Stefano Sabatini
On date Wednesday 2021-12-22 17:12:41 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > I will try again proposing a good string API for the project. But this > time, instead of showing the implementation code, I will ask about the > principle. > > So, please, read the argument, and give your opinion on the

[FFmpeg-devel] The case for a good string API

2021-12-22 Thread Nicolas George
Hi. I will try again proposing a good string API for the project. But this time, instead of showing the implementation code, I will ask about the principle. So, please, read the argument, and give your opinion on the principle. If we agree on the principle, we can discuss the code then. * Why w