codec id addition guidlines

Originally committed as revision 8534 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
18 years ago · 7ebf5927fd
parent 351f6b4e91
commit 7ebf5927fd
1 changed files with 6 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ extern "C" {
 #define AV_TIME_BASE            1000000
 #define AV_TIME_BASE_Q          (AVRational){1, AV_TIME_BASE}

+/**
+ *
+ * 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. closest to similar codecs
+ */
 enum CodecID {
    CODEC_ID_NONE,
    CODEC_ID_MPEG1VIDEO,