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A table describing a driver.

• type
  • Either "live" or "file" depending on if the driver is a live-output or a file-output driver.
• name
  • A longer name for the driver which may contain whitespace, but no newlines. It is useful for telling users what output driver is in use.
• shortName
  • A short identifier for the driver. This contains only alphanumeric characters and no whitespace. It is used to look up the driver ID number with ao.driverId.
• preferredByteFormat
  • Specifies the preferred ordering of bytes. Can be "native", "big" or "little".
• priority
  • A positive number ranking how likely it is for the driver to be used as the default. The higher, the better.
• comment
  • A driver comment string. May contain newlines.
• options
  • A table listing the options available for this driver.

Notes

Instead of this being a userdata which is restrictive and cumbersome, you use a regular table with a special set of members.