[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Make a clear distinction between an unsupported codec and an unknown one

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Monday 2008-09-01 23:41:28 +0200, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> On date Monday 2008-09-01 23:28:52 +0200, Stefano Sabatini encoded:
> [...]
> > We could have a structure named which could specify the *specific*
> > formats supported by the codec, which could support a subset/superset
> > of the referenced stream format, and could be done like this:
> > 
> > typedef struct {
> >     AVCodec *codec;          ///< codec owner
> >     AVStreamFormat *format;  ///< format referenced
> >     int capabilities;        ///< specific capabilities supported by the codec
> >     constraints ...
> > } AVCodecStreamFormat;
> > 
> > Then every codec could have a list of supported AVCodecStreamFormats
> > in decoding and in encoding, each one referencing to a specific
> > AVStreamFormat.
> 
> OK maybe this isn't a good idea and could result messy, would be
> simpler having just one codec per format.

Err.. I meant "just one format per codec", sorry for the noise...

Regards.
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