64 bits are needed in order to retain the uid values of Matroska chapters; the type is kept signed because the semantics of NUT chapters depend upon whether the id is > 0 or < 0.
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| 15 | 15 | |
| 16 | 16 | API changes, most recent first: |
| 17 | 17 | |
| 18 | +2021-03-19 - xxxxxxxxxx - lavf 58.75.100 - avformat.h | |
| 19 | + AVChapter.id will be changed from int to int64_t | |
| 20 | + on the next major version bump. | |
| 21 | + | |
| 18 | 22 | 2021-03-xx - xxxxxxxxxx - lavc 58.133.100 - codec.h |
| 19 | 23 | Deprecated av_init_packet(). Once removed, sizeof(AVPacket) will |
| 20 | 24 | no longer be a part of the public ABI. |