[FFmpeg-devel] Merging AV_CODEC_ID_IFF_ILBM and AV_CODEC_ID_IFF_BYTERUN1

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Paul B Mahol <onemda <at> gmail.com> writes:

> > How could the decoders be merged without breaking API compatibility.
> > There is at least one more compression type that I would like to add to
> > the IFF bitmap. Adding yet another AV_CODEC_ID for this would seem silly.
> 
> And would make supporting ANIMs that may change (from one compression type to
> another impossible - like ilbm <-> byterun1 but I yet have to find such 
> sample).
> 
> Proposed solution: add new codec id and use it in our lavf, others keep just
> for compatibility sake.

Alternatively, you could add all needed features to 
one of the existing decoders and drop the second one 
at the next version bump.

Carl Eugen