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Bug 738060 - Use AVInputFormat.name instead of AVInputFormat.long_name for container formats
Use AVInputFormat.name instead of AVInputFormat.long_name for container formats
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gst-libav
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: git master
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-10-07 06:51 UTC by Sebastian Dröge (slomo)
Modified: 2018-11-03 12:56 UTC
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Description Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 2014-10-07 06:51:39 UTC 
long_name is meant to be human readable and can change, while name is a comma separated list of machine usable container format names. long_name can change or be reformatted any time.

Also long_name can be NULL, especially if building libav/ffmpeg with --enable-small
Comment 1 Tim-Philipp Müller 2018-01-13 12:37:57 UTC 
Not sure I understand. Example:

$ gst-inspect-1.0 avdec_ape

Factory Details:
  Rank                     marginal (64)
  Long-name                libav Monkey's Audio decoder
  Klass                    Codec/Decoder/Audio
  Description              libav ape decoder


Why would we prefer the 'description' here over the 'long-name' ?

If it's only because of --enable-small then I would agree that we should use name as fallback if long_name is NULL.
Comment 2 Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 2018-05-04 09:56:09 UTC 
It's only about --enable-small and not crashing, yes
Comment 3 GStreamer system administrator 2018-11-03 12:56:42 UTC 
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