[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/3] avdevice/xv: change codec to wrapped avframe

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Am Mo., 6. Apr. 2020 um 19:58 Uhr schrieb Nicolas George <george at nsup.org>:
>
> Carl Eugen Hoyos (12020-04-06):
> > Is it possible to support both codecs?
>
> Of course it it possible. And this is exactly the right thing to do
> (modulo the question of which raw frame API we keep).
>
> > Commit 64ceeac2 changed the only supported format for the
> > null muxer without any version bump.
> > (While this is a very important muxer for me, I agree that my
> > argumentation above is not completely compelling.)
>
> null is a different case: nobody will use null specifically, if they use
> it, they use it as a placeholder for generic code capable of handling
> any muxer. And since it is generic code, it will handle any codec.
>
> But anyway, you are reading this commit wrongly. It does not remove
> support for rawvideo in null, rawvideo is still supported in null, as
> any other codec. This commit only changes the default codec.

Thank you, I had never realized this in all the years I (thought I) had
to specify --enable-decoder=rawvideo,wrapped_avframe...

Carl Eugen