[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] disable libdv by default

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 08:15:25PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 03:40:13PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > libdv has a rather unreliable auto-detection and I think that
> > libavformat/libavcodec in general work better for it (if not we will get
> > some bug reports).
> > Thus I propose disabling libdv unless explicitly disabled. I admit that
> > having libdv installed is reason to suggest the user wants it to be
> > used, but in case of libdv I think there are simply other programs that
> > indeed need it whereas for MPlayer it mostly causes issues.
> 
> I don't understand, ffdv is preferred over libdv, what is the problem?

As explained: the native dv demuxer depends on libdv, and disabling is
the simplest way to get (in a way that is reversible by the user) rid of it.
In general I am in favour of removing some of the rather useless bloat,
in particular vd_nuv and several adpcm audio decoders.