[MPlayer-dev-eng] external library encoders used through FFmpeg (was: Re: [MPlayer-cvslog] r26678 - trunk/configure)

[compn]

On Thu, 8 May 2008 01:36:11 +0200 Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

> Now the question is how to handle the few libraries that are actually
> used through libavcodec.  libamr is only supported through lavc and not
> a problem.  However, LIBFAAC, LIBXVID, LIBX264, LIBMP3LAME remain and
> are currently not functional.
> 
> My questions are: Are these libraries really used through lavc?  Is
> there some advantage to doing this instead of using them directly?
> What exactly is required for them to work?

i heard on the internets that libfaac is required for mencoder to generate correct ipod videos, but this maybe outdated information.

-compn