[NUT-devel] nutmerge

[Oded Shimon]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:01:10AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:09:46AM +0300, Oded Shimon wrote:
> > Before we can publisize NUT, nutmerge need to be complete, or at least 
> > compliant by rejecting any unknown codec/format.
> > 
> > What exactly is the point of nutmerge? If I use lavf and lavc framers, 
> > then it's just get a slightly lightweight ffmpeg and nothing more. The 
> > alternative, doing it all from scratch was fun for a bit, but now it's 
> > just NIH. So, what should be done with it?
> 
> either reject unknown codecs (and optionally add support for a few
> more common ones), or use libavformat for input and just use the
> libnut muxer for output. imo it's very useful to have a program that
> uses libnut for muxing so that multiple independent implementations
> can be used and tested against one another, but reimplementing every
> single demuxer/framer isn't very useful.

You can do this without nutmerge by adding several nut muxers in lavf ...

- ods15