[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] codec options

[Robert Swain]

Hello,

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 16:52 +0100, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> > Hi, currently if you want to know what option a codec uses you need to
> > look in the source. That makes it hard to know what arguments you can
> > pass to a certain codec. So how about we list all used options in the
> > AVCodec struct for all the codecs? That way we can query a codec for
> > options and graphical tools can build settings screens.

Very nice idea! I would love this functionality.

> I'd like it, and it might be the good opportunity to add per codec
> default settings too.

Strongly seconded.

Rob