[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/allcodecs: add FFMPEG_PREFER_* env vars

Hendrik Leppkes h.leppkes at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 17:33:09 EEST 2018


On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:40 PM, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Regarding this patch, personally I don't think using getenv() to
> configure what is pretty much API semantics is acceptable. But a new
> API function that restricts what codecs are used based on a string
> argument might be ok. Then applications could use it to implement
> codec selection control via environment or command line arguments or
> something else.
>
>

I agree with no getenv, handling env variables in a library is an iffy concept.

A new API  for that seems pretty weird as well, considering we already
have functions to select codecs by name, which can be easily used for
this purpose - the same way ffmpeg.c for example implements this.
And if you need code changes anyway, might as well do it the way its intended.

- Hendrik


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