On May 5, 2012, at 9:16 PM, Alex Cohn wrote: > On May 6, 2012 6:28 AM, "Bruce Wheaton" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Is it possible to open codecs for encoding, and use them to encode a > > complete piece, then, on the fly (when the complete clip had already been > > encoded) switch over and use them to decompress the same media? > > > > I'm flexible on which codecs, although I like MP4 for being LGPL and good > > at multi-threading. > > > > To the best of my knowledge, encoders and decoders are completely separate. > But nothing can prevent you from creating both at initialization time, and > using the encoder or decoder whenever you need that. > Thanks. I wasn't really aware of that distinction. Ah, I see. avcodec_find_decoder versus avcodec_find_encoder.
Then I suppose the question becomes, can I use the same AVFormatContext with encoders and decoders… and use the same AVStreams? Bruce _______________________________________________ Libav-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
