[FFmpeg-devel] Notes about avdevice

[Don Moir]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Pack" <rogerdpack2 at gmail.com>
To: "FFmpeg development discussions and patches" <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Notes about avdevice


>> 2) I can set the av options to list_devices and it goes to stdout. This is
>> pretty useless in a GUI app.
>
> What I do is run ffmpeg.exe and parse the output. Crude, but works,
> and yes, you can run commands from within GUI's :)
>
>> 3) I would also need to find the various resolutions for a particular camera
>> and that might be in place, I don't know but I assume if it was it would
>> also goto stdout and thats useless.
>
> See above.
>

I already enumerate the devices and resolutions internally, but my main point was this should be part of the avdevice API without 
doing something crazy.