[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] prefer non experimental decoders

[Janne Grunau]

Hi,

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There is desire to mark the native vp8 decoder as experimental until it
fully passes the conformance test suite.

Baptiste disagreed but I still think it's useful.

Janne
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commit 22314057e35cd9745fb8452f526ae7b21d3f3e3c
Author: Janne Grunau <janne at grunau.be>
Date:   Tue Jun 22 20:46:53 2010 +0200

    prefer non-experimental decoders
    
    Same change for avcodec_find_decoder() as r23334 in avcodec_find_encoder()

diff --git a/libavcodec/utils.c b/libavcodec/utils.c
index 008f9e9..c1dc3c4 100644
--- a/libavcodec/utils.c
+++ b/libavcodec/utils.c
@@ -755,14 +755,19 @@ AVCodec *avcodec_find_encoder_by_name(const char *name)
 
 AVCodec *avcodec_find_decoder(enum CodecID id)
 {
-    AVCodec *p;
+    AVCodec *p, *experimental=NULL;
     p = first_avcodec;
     while (p) {
-        if (p->decode != NULL && p->id == id)
-            return p;
+        if (p->decode != NULL && p->id == id) {
+            if (p->capabilities & CODEC_CAP_EXPERIMENTAL && !experimental) {
+                experimental = p;
+            } else {
+                return p;
+            }
+        }
         p = p->next;
     }
-    return NULL;
+    return experimental;
 }
 
 AVCodec *avcodec_find_decoder_by_name(const char *name)