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| author | Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com> | 2013-11-13 18:56:03 -0800 |
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| committer | Stefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com> | 2013-11-14 09:51:10 +0100 |
| commit | 52955c412c60f6b1444f4800c4a3cc72fe36f1b6 (patch) | |
| tree | deaba2bf76ff0f63eb6da39fb9c9dbc9a47eff9b /doc/libavutil.texi | |
| parent | 33311af75d7f8a819dfa4a0f246248ecc14428fc (diff) | |
doc/libavutil: add things from avutil.txt
Many minor fixes from: Stefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com>.
Signed-off-by: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/libavutil.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/libavutil.texi | 20 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/libavutil.texi b/doc/libavutil.texi index 50b0d0e3da..5ec7e84dfc 100644 --- a/doc/libavutil.texi +++ b/doc/libavutil.texi @@ -16,7 +16,25 @@ The libavutil library is a utility library to aid portable multimedia programming. It contains safe portable string functions, random number generators, data structures, additional mathematics functions, cryptography and multimedia related functionality (like -enumerations for pixel and sample formats). +enumerations for pixel and sample formats). It is not a library for +code needed by both libavcodec and libavformat. + +The goals for this library is to be: + +@table @strong +@item Modular +It should have few interdependencies and the possibility of disabling individual +parts during @command{./configure}. + +@item Small +Both sources and objects should be small. + +@item Efficient +It should have low CPU and memory usage. + +@item Useful +It should avoid useless features that almost no one needs. +@end table @c man end DESCRIPTION |