[Bf-committers] AVI CODEC future

[Michael Fox]

On 28/05/12 18:50, Thomas Dinges wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> I had a look at the AVI Codec format in the Output Format menu.
>
> It never worked in 2.5x, because it's missing the format select menu.
> This was also only working in 2.4x on windows.
>
> Suggestions:
> 1) Comment the entry in the RNA enum
>
> 2) Remove the whole underlying code, because I think it's questionable
> anyone will bring that back. I had a brief look at the code in 2.4, and
> its quite a bit to port over.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas
>
i'd say port it, because we cop a lot of complaints that blender don’t 
use their fancy installed codec, and not many realise, we don't use 
system codec, and granted it was a pretty big hack in 2.4 but a very 
usful hack