[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Libtheora encoding in lavc

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 1/25/07, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 03:49:25AM -0500, Brett Goulder wrote:
> > Fixes build with recent ffmpeg changes (libtheora-based encoding),
> > however I have yet to make mencoder produce a stream that can be
> > played back by the libtheora-based decoder, however ffmpeg's decoder
> > plays the file fine. It might just be better to outright disable this
> > for the moment, considering that it was only recently committed and
> > seems to be somewhat incomplete.
>
> I've disabled this for now to hotfix the build, but maybe your patch is
> the preferrable solution.
>
> So pardon my ignorance of encoding issues, but is Theora encoding over
> lavc a desirable feature?

Desirable as an addition to our feature list, but it's likely to be
somewhat broken.
AFAIK, we had several bug reports about unplayable encodes when
mencoder was using an external codec though lavc (I didn't test myself
though).


>  Does MEncoder support libtheora encoding
> directly?

No, not directly.

Guillaume