[Ffmpeg-devel] refactoring ffmpeg.c for shared librarycompatibility.

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:15:52PM +0100, V?ctor Paesa wrote:
> Hi,
> > Hi
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 06:48:20PM +0800, Jaime V. wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I'd like to refactorize ffmpeg.c in order to write a function to
> >> initialize and teardown variables in it and need some help for it.
> >> I willing to undertake the deed and maybe it can contribute this way to
> >> the project. :)
> >>
> >> Frustrated by the common beginners difficulty of trying to use ffmpeg in
> >> a project to transcode some videos i came up with the idea of using the
> >> already implemented ffmpeg.c as a library. This makes it easier for
> >> beginners to use ffmpeg from within existing projects or foreign
> >> environments such as MSVC. This also comes in handy when using own
> >> protocols.
> >
> > exec("ffmpeg(.exe)", ...)
> 
> There two advantages on this proposal:
> a) Spawning processes is slower that using this high level library,

This is a myth. Spawning processes is not slow at all unless you do it
millions of times...

> b) its API could be less prone to changes than the current low level API.
> 
> This high level API could be adopted by the many GUIs that now use exec()

If you want to make such a thing no one's stopping you, but I don't
see a lot of use/merit in it.

Rich