[FFmpeg-cvslog] avconv: add support for VDPAU decoding

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 25.11.2013, at 14:42, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> Le tridi 3 frimaire, an CCXXII, Reimar Döffinger a écrit :
>> Why, oh why, did this have to be part of avconv.
>> That still is 0 use to everyone else who wants to use VDPAU, continuing
>> the tradition of hwaccel support being a prime example of the same code
>> being duplicated over and over and over...
> 
> Let us just make sure that ffmpeg's API is more practical for applications.

I suspect that you could just put exactly that code into a separate h264 decoder like for h264_vda.
That only leaves a better way for an application to select that codec than searching by its name.
Of course it would be nice to be able to do more clever stuff like auto-selection of hardware acceleration and automatic software fallback, but it would be a start at least.