[FFmpeg-devel] foo -> libfoo changes

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 04:26:02PM +0400, Pavlov Konstantin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:47:16PM +0300, Ismail D?nmez wrote:
> > [...]
> > >  @item example command line
> > > -ffmpeg -i input -acodec aac -ab 128kb -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1200kb -mbd 2
> > > -flags +4mv+trell -aic 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -s 320x180 -title X output.mp4
> > > +ffmpeg -i input -acodec libfaac -ab 128kb -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1200kb -mbd 2
> > > -flags +4mv+trell -aic 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -s 320x180 -title X output.mp4
> > > @end table
> > 
> > This _is_ bad. The code name is AAC not libfaac, same for mp3 there is no 
> > codec called libmp3lame. Changes in configure script is ok but changing codec 
> > name is a very bad idea and breaking backward compatibility for no apparent 
> > reason.
> 
> Sure it is. Strange to see such a change in the ABI breaking all the stuff
> linked to older ffmpeg.

feel free to send a patch for avcodec_find_encoder_by_name() so it
selects libfaac/libmp3lame if no aac/mp3 is found

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