[Ffmpeg-devel] x264-r592 breaks ffmpeg r6687

[Erik Slagter]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> also IIRC x264 has some generic option handling, we should use that if
> possible, the idea would be to first set everything up based on the normal
> values in AVCodecContext like we do currently but with x264_param_parse()
> this should prevent some compatibility breaks ...
> and then pass any -genericopt or -gopt or whatever we call it argument 
> to the codec (for x264 it would need to be choped up, maybe with a=b:c=d:...
> style?

Yes, please!

But I do understand it's a "bit" of work to do. It would be the ultimate
solution for the changing api of x264 imho though.