FFmpeg数据结构彻底分析——AVClass

/**
 * Describe the class of an AVClass context structure. That is an //描述任意一个第一个指针指向AVClass的上下文结构体
 * arbitrary struct of which the first field is a pointer to an
 * AVClass struct (e.g. AVCodecContext, AVFormatContext etc.).
 */
typedef struct AVClass {
    /**
     * The name of the class; usually it is the same name as the
     * context structure type to which the AVClass is associated.
     */
    const char* class_name;

    /**
     * A pointer to a function which returns the name of a context
     * instance ctx associated with the class.
     */
    const char* (*item_name)(void* ctx); // 指向返回ctx指向的context实例的函数的指针

    /**
     * a pointer to the first option specified in the class if any or NULL
     *
     * @see av_set_default_options()
     */
    const struct AVOption *option; //指向在类中指向的第一个选项，没有则为NULL

    /**
     * LIBAVUTIL_VERSION with which this structure was created.
     * This is used to allow fields to be added without requiring major
     * version bumps everywhere.
     */

    int version;   //这个结构体是用那个版本的LIBAVUTIL_VERSION创建的

    /**
     * Offset in the structure where log_level_offset is stored.
     * 0 means there is no such variable
     */
    int log_level_offset_offset;

    /**
     * Offset in the structure where a pointer to the parent context for
     * logging is stored. For example a decoder could pass its AVCodecContext
     * to eval as such a parent context, which an av_log() implementation
     * could then leverage to display the parent context.
     * The offset can be NULL.
     */
    int parent_log_context_offset;

    /**
     * Return next AVOptions-enabled child or NULL
     */
    void* (*child_next)(void *obj, void *prev);

    /**
     * Return an AVClass corresponding to the next potential
     * AVOptions-enabled child.
     *
     * The difference between child_next and this is that
     * child_next iterates over _already existing_ objects, while
     * child_class_next iterates over _all possible_ children.
     */
    const struct AVClass* (*child_class_next)(const struct AVClass *prev);

    /**
     * Category used for visualization (like color)
     * This is only set if the category is equal for all objects using this class.
     * available since version (51 << 16 | 56 << 8 | 100)
     */
    AVClassCategory category;

    /**
     * Callback to return the category.
     * available since version (51 << 16 | 59 << 8 | 100)
     */
    AVClassCategory (*get_category)(void* ctx);

    /**
     * Callback to return the supported/allowed ranges.
     * available since version (52.12)
     */
    int (*query_ranges)(struct AVOptionRanges **, void *obj, const char *key, int flags);
} AVClass;