[Ffmpeg-devel] [patch] fix up CONFIG_ENCODERS

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:06:53PM -0600, Mike Melanson wrote:
>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> >IMHO the whole CONFIG_ENCODERS should be dropped in favor of per 
>> >encoder/decoder #ifdefs, the later can and should also be added 
>> >incrementally, 1 codec at a time and be only around non-static functions 
>> >of each codec or skip compiling whole files
>> 
>> 	I support this approach as well.
>
> I think a --disable-encoding (or whatever) shortcut in configure is and
> will be very useful.  MPlayer is compiled with --disable-mencoder all
> the time and those people will benefit from skipping the code they will
> never need.  I agree that per-codec enabling and disabling would be cool
> to have but until this is becomes a reality I support updating the
> CONFIG_ENCODERS infrastructure.

Do we all agree that individual disabling of each encoder/decoder is a
good idea?  In that case, we might as well start the conversion, one
codec at a time.  Are there any codecs that depend on other codecs?

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