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| author | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2011-10-24 21:21:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2011-10-28 01:37:50 +0200 |
| commit | 2179fc48b2752ab7de23ce75352796889febc41a (patch) | |
| tree | 718f0b206fa184d3e92152de91b42a851ac18b37 /libavcodec | |
| parent | dc38625ebce7af8e218ce7f3c553d1b570a349ed (diff) | |
| download | ffmpeg-2179fc48b2752ab7de23ce75352796889febc41a.tar.gz | |
avcodec: Resolve the codec_id compatibility issue.
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Diffstat (limited to 'libavcodec')
| -rw-r--r-- | libavcodec/avcodec.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h index 15dc203be5..401ce32f25 100644 --- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h +++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h @@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ * * If you add a codec ID to this list, add it so that * 1. no value of a existing codec ID changes (that would break ABI), - * 2. it is as close as possible to similar codecs. + * 2. Give it a value which when taken as ASCII is recognized uniquely by a human as this specific codec. + * This ensures that 2 forks can independantly add CodecIDs without producing conflicts. */ enum CodecID { CODEC_ID_NONE, |