From 52955c412c60f6b1444f4800c4a3cc72fe36f1b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timothy Gu Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 18:56:03 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] doc/libavutil: add things from avutil.txt Many minor fixes from: Stefano Sabatini . Signed-off-by: Timothy Gu Signed-off-by: Stefano Sabatini --- doc/libavutil.texi | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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