> Overloading one config option to both turn h264 on/off, > an choose encoding is not very desirable. > > IMHO there should be a "h264=<bool>" option to turn it > on/off, and a separate flag to choose the encoder.
will do that. > Do we even need to give a list of encoders, as opposed > to just choosing the desired encoder ? How do you know if the encoder is available? If we use a list, we can simply loop through and use the first available. This way we can also test for (and prefer) hardware encoder... - Dietmar