[FFmpeg-devel] Merging AV_CODEC_ID_IFF_ILBM and AV_CODEC_ID_IFF_BYTERUN1

[Paul B Mahol]

On 11/21/12, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> Paul B Mahol <onemda <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> >> 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.
>>
>> You cant drop libav ids
>
> You can put a dummy id in place.

That is what I said, you just leave id where it is in avcodec.h
and it becomes dummy. Like what is 8svx_raw now; it is not used
by anything in lavf.