It was added in cb114ed4640 with the comment "This will allow fixing several bugs with the -shortest option". Since * there is no explanation of what these bugs are * libavformat is not the place to work around ffmpeg CLI bugs * there is no indication that this feature is actually in use deprecate it without replacement.
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| @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ The last version increases of all libraries were on 2023-02-09 · 1 unmodified line | ||
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| 3 | 3 | API changes, most recent first: |
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| 5 | +2023-09-xx - xxxxxxxxxx - lavf 60 - avformat.h | |
| 6 | + Deprecate AVFMT_FLAG_SHORTEST without replacement. | |
| 7 | + | |
| 5 | 8 | 2023-09-07 - xxxxxxxxxx - lavu 58.24.100 - imgutils.h |
| 6 | 9 | Add av_image_copy2(), a wrapper around the av_image_copy() |
| 7 | 10 | to overcome limitations of automatic conversions. |