[FFmpeg-devel] FOMS 2009 FFmpeg outbrief

[Aurelien Jacobs]

M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:

> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:23:02PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:
> >> 
> >> >> - less dependency of libavformat on libavcodec would be welcome
> >> >
> >> > I agree fully, but what exactly are you thinking of?
> >> > There are only two dependencies I know of: AVParser (which I think is
> >> > unavoidable) and that extradata formats may be incompatible (theora, and
> >> > IMHO it is justified to blame that on Ogg-braindeadness).
> >> 
> >> Libavformat cannot export a stream for which there is no codec in
> >> lavc.  
> >
> > this is only partly true
> > the user app has to figure the codec out based on the container specific
> > codec_tag but thats not the same as impossible ...
> 
> Libavformat could set an lavc codec ID even if that codec is disabled.

IIRC it actually does, don't it ?
Or maybe only some demuxers does it ?
Anyway, if it don't actually work, I agree that it's something which
should be fixed.

Aurel