[FFmpeg-devel] Reworking the codec lookup system

[Måns Rullgård]

Nicolas George <nicolas.george at normalesup.org> writes:

> Le duodi 22 prairial, an CCXV, Baptiste Coudurier a ?crit?:
>> I don't see the need for family name, IMHO codec_id is sufficient and 
>> unique, and should be used to identify what a decoder/encoder can 
>> decode/encode, but I can see the ambiguity between some variants of 
>> MPEG-4 (part 2), which really caused that mess, IMHO codec_tag + 
>> codec_id should be sufficient to identify.
>
> Alas, it does not work that way. CodecID is neither an identifier of the
> codec, nor of the codec family. For example, there are both CODEC_ID_MPEG4
> and CODEC_ID_XVID, although they are in the same codec family. On the other
> hand, there is only CODEC_ID_VORBIS for the vorbis and libvorbis encoders.

CODEC_ID_XVID should go.

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