[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH][8/8] Add VA API deps to configure (take 2)

[Gwenole Beauchesne]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Diego Biurrun wrote:

>> Because if you want to disable VA API or VDPAU that's 6 or 5 hwaccels
>> to specify. And if there is a new hwaccel, people will generally
>> forget about it, unless a glob catches it.
>
> New hwaccels will not appear very often and there is always the output
> of configure to check.

Really, dropping the option (along with vdpau) is not very convenient. 
Please also do the same for dirac et al. then...

The purpose of the option is also to say: hey there is no such lib, or I 
don't want you to use use it, so don't try to include code that depends on 
it.