[FFmpeg-user] Specifying a codec by name

[Moritz Barsnick]

Hi, 

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 15:18:22 +0530, Sreenath BH wrote:
> We want to use the same ffmpeg libraries to load either the nvidia or
> the libx264 codec in our program.

For the use of the libraries, please refer to the libav-user list:
https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel/

> However, the function avcodec_open2 takes the codec ID as the argument.
> 
> How do I specify the codec to be used by its name, instead of the codec ID?

Well, if I read the documentation of that function, it clearly says:
https://www.ffmpeg.org/doxygen/2.7/group__lavc__core.html#ga11f785a188d7d9df71621001465b0f1d

"The functions avcodec_find_decoder_by_name(),
avcodec_find_encoder_by_name(), avcodec_find_decoder() and
avcodec_find_encoder() provide an easy way for retrieving a codec."

I know nothing more than that, sorry. :-)

HTH,
Moritz