Commit f9112664 authored by wm4's avatar wm4 Committed by Michael Niedermayer

lavu: add an API function to return the FFmpeg version string

This returns something like "N-73264-gb54ac840". This is much more useful
than the individual library versions, of which there are too much and
which are very hard to map back to releases or git commits.
Signed-off-by: 's avatarMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
parent db64af63
......@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ libavutil: 2014-08-09
API changes, most recent first:
2015-xx-xx - xxxxxx - lavu 53.xx.100
Add avutil_version_info().
-------- 8< --------- FFmpeg 2.7 was cut here -------- 8< ---------
2015-06-04 - cc17b43 - lswr 1.2.100
......
......@@ -170,6 +170,13 @@
*/
unsigned avutil_version(void);
/**
* Return an informative version string. This usually the actual release version
* number and a git hash. This string has no fixed format and can change any
* time. It should never be parsed by code.
*/
const char *avutil_version_info(void);
/**
* Return the libavutil build-time configuration.
*/
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......@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@
#include "libavutil/ffversion.h"
const char av_util_ffversion[] = "FFmpeg version " FFMPEG_VERSION;
const char *avutil_version_info(void)
{
return FFMPEG_VERSION;
}
unsigned avutil_version(void)
{
static int checks_done;
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