[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Make avcodec_open find the default if codec is null

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 07:34:40PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I tried to implement Michael's recent suggestion:
> 
> > make libavcodec call avcodec_find_decoder() when codec=NULL and this becomes
> > simpler
> 
> This gave the attached patch. It has a few glitches:
> 
> - avcodec_open relies on the codec parameter to know whether this is an
>   encoder or a decoder. As decoders are probably more commonly needed than
>   encoders, and as selecting a default encoder is less useful too, I had it
>   default to search for a decoder.
> 
> - Among the few uses of avcodec_open in the current tree, at a quick glance,
>   only a few would benefit from the change.

yes, maybe this suggestion was not so good after all. I had not realized there
would be encoder/decoder ambiguity ...


> 
> - There is no satisfactory error code. I made another patch adding error
>   codes for demuxer/muxer/decoder/encoder not found.

i dont mind these error codes being added if you think they are usefull

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