It will allow to refernce it as a whole without clunky macros.
Most of the changes have been automatically made with sed:
sed -i '
s/-> *in_formats/->incfg.formats/g;
s/-> *out_formats/->outcfg.formats/g;
s/-> *in_channel_layouts/->incfg.channel_layouts/g;
s/-> *out_channel_layouts/->outcfg.channel_layouts/g;
s/-> *in_samplerates/->incfg.samplerates/g;
s/-> *out_samplerates/->outcfg.samplerates/g;
' src/libavfilter/*(.)
Nicolas George
Paul B Mahol
Michael Niedermayer