[Ffmpeg-devel] Differences between mencoder and ffmpegwhenencoding using x264

[Måns Rullgård]

Wolfram Gloger <wmglo at dent.med.uni-muenchen.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
>> I started looking at this.  The libavcodec side of it is easy enough.
>> The problem is making ffmpeg.c use it.  More specifically, it sets all
>> the parameters in AVCodecContext before deciding which codec to use.
>
> I've looked at this yesterday and well -- ffmpeg.c shouldn't do this,
> if only for preparation of the day when per-codec parameters arrive..

This is the only thing holding me back at the moment.

> I would suggest for ffmpeg.c:
>
> 1. When parsing options and recognizing them as codec options, don't
>    do anything with them except storing them in opt_names[],
>    opt_args[] arrays (this is already partially the case right
>    now, opt_names[] already exists).

I'll have to have a closer look at this.

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