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authorMichael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>2016-05-28 16:57:14 +0200
committerMichael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>2016-06-01 18:12:39 +0200
commitb8426b865edd2f82a26ab7e990dd98a174b9da32 (patch)
tree9bf3084b07662737c1ad636d52ebbed280a43fc1 /libavcodec/avcodec.h
parent003a9e4854d6c88c703c6429b547544166d96eab (diff)
downloadffmpeg-b8426b865edd2f82a26ab7e990dd98a174b9da32.tar.gz
avcodec: Document where the AVOption names can be found for the fields of AVCodecContext
Missing docs found by: nevcairiel RFC: should we add support so that the C field names always work as av option names/keys ? Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
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diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
index 339a1b2184..5fcecda626 100644
--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@@ -1638,6 +1638,10 @@ enum AVFieldOrder {
* version bump.
* Please use AVOptions (av_opt* / av_set/get*()) to access these fields from user
* applications.
+ * The name string for AVOptions options matches the associated command line
+ * parameter name and can be found in libavcodec/options_table.h
+ * The AVOption/command line parameter names differ in some cases from the C
+ * structure field names for historic reasons or brevity.
* sizeof(AVCodecContext) must not be used outside libav*.
*/
typedef struct AVCodecContext {