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@derrod derrod commented Jun 20, 2024

Description

This RFC intends to facilitate discussion to find a way to move away from storing codec identifiers as strings. This is to avoid string comparisons and remove some redundancies such as outputs defining their own codec enumerations.

Motivation and Context

String comparisons are slow, error prone (case sensitivity, typos, etc.), and generally ugly. Most outputs convert from strings to internal enumerations anyway which could be made redundant by providing them in the first place.

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@derrod derrod force-pushed the no-codec-strings-attached branch from 48bfd05 to 2977f18 Compare June 20, 2024 06:45

#### Drawbacks

- Requires libobs API changes to add new codecs
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Wouldn't all three solutions require libobs API changes?

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The third requires to modify the API at each codec addition unlike the two others that relies on a third-party enum or FourCC (not an enum but integers).

@derrod derrod force-pushed the no-codec-strings-attached branch from 2977f18 to 83b8cdb Compare June 20, 2024 07:05
@derrod derrod force-pushed the no-codec-strings-attached branch from 83b8cdb to dd3528d Compare June 20, 2024 14:46
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