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-rw-r--r--libavcodec/avcodec.h4
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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 {