Deprecate av_get_bits_per_sample_fmt(), which was a misnamed function.
For the moment we don't have sample formats with a non-integer number
of bytes, in that case we may need to create a new
av_get_bits_per_sample() function. In the meanwhile we prefer to adopt
this variant, since avoids divisions by 8 all over the place.
The new layout is consistent with that of the av_image_() API, and
simplifies understanding and copy operations, it also preserves
alignment information which was lost with the previous layout.
This breaks API/ABI, but since the function was never referenced in
the code (and it isn't unlikely already used by someone) then this
should not be a problem.
It is pretty hopeless that other considerable projects will adopt
libavutil alone in other projects. Projects that need small footprint
are better off with more specialized libraries such as gnulib or rather
just copy the necessary parts that they need. With this in mind, nobody
is helped by having libavutil and libavcore split. In order to ease
maintenance inside and around FFmpeg and to reduce confusion where to
put common code, avcore's functionality is merged (back) to avutil.
Signed-off-by: Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>
Michael Niedermayer
Stefano Sabatini
Mans Rullgard
Reinhard Tartler