[MPlayer-dev-eng] libavcodec as 'public' library

[Martin Drab]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Luis.F.Correia wrote:

> > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> > 
> > > > last time I tried it (2 weeks ago), mplayer recognized 
> > > > libavcodec, but 
> > > > failed to compile because
> > > > it tried to use the post-processing code present it 
> > libavcodec/ (that 
> > > > wasn't there)
> > > 
> > > Actually, what i want is the other way around... ;)
> > > 
> > > I want to compile mplayer with the included libavcodec, but 
> > make that
> > > library public for OTHER applications to use ;)
> >  
> > How about to compile it in the MPlayer as usually and then compile it 
> > separatley again in the ffmpeg package? If you use
> 
> Waste of diskspace. That is what I want to avoid!
> 
> I have at least two other applications that use the libavcodec supplied
> by mplayer. Why should I have to have it (lavc) inside the 3 applications?

Because it performs better, if it's linked statically. For MPlayer this is 
essential (performance). And I guess few MB (or better: few hundreds KB) 
here or there doesn't matter nowadays. Or does it?

Martin