[FFmpeg-user] Do I really need libaom?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Am Mo., 22. Feb. 2021 um 13:18 Uhr schrieb Alexander Dyagilev
<alervdvcw at gmail.com>:

> We need to give our users an ability to convert arbitrary video
> files to MP4.
>
> Some of these files uses AV1 codec.
>
> I've enabled the use of libdav1d library (which contains decoder only).
>
> Do we really need to include libaom too?

You need it if you want to encode to AV1.
For decoding AV1, dav1d alone is sufficient.

Carl Eugen