[Bf-committers] libavcodec support (ffmpeg).

[John K. Walton]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Robert Wenzlaff wrote:

> I mentioned last week that I was thinking about adding libavcodec support.
> Libavcodec provides many video and audio codecs, is mostly LGPL (two modules 
> are GPL),  and is available for Linux, BSD, OSX, Windows, and BeOS. 
> 
> To keep from adding another build dependancy,  I was thinking of making the 
> support a transparent link using dlopen().   If you don't have the lib, then 
> the options just won't show up in your buttons.  (Which platform doesn't 
> support dlopen()?  Was it BeOS?  Should we check out 
> http://www.bebits.com/app/2917 ).

irix has a dlopen call.
 
> Attached is a sample mpeg encoder I implimented this way.  Very crude, (03:30 
> is not the time to try to parse RGB into YUV4:2:0).
> 
> Let me know what your thoughts are on this style of implimentation.
> I'm off to bed. 
>