[FFmpeg-cvslog] r15103 - in trunk: Changelog libavcodec/Makefile libavcodec/ac3dec.c

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Sunday 2008-08-31 08:42:59 -0400, compn wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:08:18 +0200 (CEST), jbr wrote:
> >Author: jbr
> >turn on E-AC-3 decoding support and update the Changelog
> >   trunk/Changelog
> >   trunk/libavcodec/Makefile
> >   trunk/libavcodec/ac3dec.c
> 
> missing docs entry, but hurray! its committed! :)
> ffmpeg needs an automatically generated codec list.
> updating the docs manually is time consuming.

Mmh yes, a little C util should do the trick, then we could include
its output to the general.texi file, I don't know if texinfo already
support an inclusion mechanism otherwise we can grok one ourself.

The problem is that doing this that way we're going to lose some
information, unless we want to include per each format supported a
description field such as:
    "This format is used in the non-Windows version of the Feeble Files
     game and different game cutscenes repacked for use with ScummVM."

Also we have codecs which support more than one format (e.g. mjpeg),
in that case it's very difficult to say which are the supported
formats in some automated way (I would like to improve the general
codecs/mudems/formats management framework, but this requires quite a
good amount of work and a major bump).

Regards.