On 16.06.2015 22:29, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 6/16/15, Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On 16.06.2015 21:31, Hendrik Leppkes wrote: >>> I see no reason these strings should be considered API. They are >>> descriptive names, not option tokens or anything. >>> If you want a reliable static way to identify a codec, use the id. >> >> At least currently using the codec id is the only way to reliably >> identify codecs, because there are decoders with the same name, >> but different codec ids. >> (name: "iff", id: AV_CODEC_ID_IFF_ILBM or AV_CODEC_ID_IFF_BYTERUN1) >> >> However, I think that is broken, but I'm not sure how that can be fixed. > > That used to be two different decoders but now are both same decoder, > my plan is to rename one to AV_CODEC_ID_IFF and deprecate other.
Ah, I see. Doing that would be good, but definitely requires a soversion bump. Best regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
