[Ffmpeg-devel] refactoring ffmpeg.c for shared library compatibility.

[Zoltan NAGY]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:25:43PM +0100, Zoltan NAGY wrote:
>   
>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 06:48:20PM +0800, Jaime V. wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'd like to refactorize ffmpeg.c in order to write a function to 
>>>> initialize and teardown variables in it and need some help for it.
>>>> I willing to undertake the deed and maybe it can contribute this way to 
>>>> the project. :)
>>>>
>>>> Frustrated by the common beginners difficulty of trying to use ffmpeg in 
>>>> a project to transcode some videos i came up with the idea of using the
>>>> already implemented ffmpeg.c as a library. This makes it easier for 
>>>> beginners to use ffmpeg from within existing projects or foreign 
>>>> environments such as MSVC. This also comes in handy when using own 
>>>> protocols.
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> exec("ffmpeg(.exe)", ...)
>>>
>>>  
>>>       
>> that sucks. :)
>>     
>
> why?
>   
well using something this way is a more lot unclean than using something 
as a lib,
IMHO.

Z