[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Default to using libraries when enabled

[Benoit Fouet]

On 2009-06-22 10:33, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 08:05:14PM -0400, David Conrad wrote:
>> On Jun 15, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>> our vorbis encoder should be compiled and available by default, selecting
>>> another encoder by default at runtime if a better one is available surely
>>> is not a bad idea
>> So, I should revert my disabling of the vorbis encoder. How about moving 
>> only the libvorbis declaration above native encoders, as in the attached? 
>> (or moving the native vorbis encoder below all others?) And would adding an 
>> av_log info message to vorbis_enc.c saying that the native vorbis encoder 
>> is poor quality (and recommending libvorbis) be okay?
> 
> adding a flag (like the CODEC_CAP_* stuff but CAPability is maybe a bad name
> here) that specifies that the codec is not production quality yet could help
> a user app like ffmpeg could then print a warning and the code could select
> codecs while prefering ones wihout that flag ...
> 

a sort of CODEC_CRAPABILITY ? ;)

Ben