[Ffmpeg-devel] Differences between mencoder and ffmpegwhenencoding using x264

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 07:51:53PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Robert Swain <robert.swain at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > In my opinion the defaults system should be altered such that
> > defaults can be specified for each codec. Maybe inheriting defaults
> > from elsewhere and overwriting some as required. Defaults should
> > also be consolidated as they're all over the place (in the code) at
> > the moment.
> >
> > This is all my lowly opinion. :) The big guns might disagree.
> > (Michael? Loren? Mans? ...Rich? etc :) )
> 
> I agree.  The problem right now is that avcodec_get_context_defaults()
> doesn't know which codec the context is intended for.  I suggest we
> create a new avcodec_get_context_defaults2(), or whatever, taking an
> AVCodec as an argument, and doing the same as the present
> avcodec_get_context_defaults, then fetching overrides from the codec.
> The per-codec defaults could be supplied either by means of a pointer
> to a function that when called filled in various values, or perhaps
> somehow using the AVOption stuff.
> 
> Is this a bad idea for some reason I haven't thought of?

the idea sounds good, so if noone has a better one, feel free to
implement that ...

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Michael