Re: lavf?

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 16:48 -0700, Hibiki Kanzaki wrote:
> How is libavformat support for 1.1.x  transcode? 

Hi,

in 1.1.x the lavf support is absent :)
It was introduced (as well as for the ogg support) during the early
beginnings of the 1.2.x development cycle.

It's still a work in progress, though.

>  mencoder sort of
> supports it... it can talk to the library, but the results are not always
> what I would hope for... I am not sure if it is the implementation has
> previously been focused so much on AVI... but I am not sure how
> much different transcode 1.1.x is in that regard.

1.1.x has not substantial advantage. The leap ahead will happen with
1.2.x.

>  I guess I am
> wondering if it is better to just output raw streams and then use
> separate tools (mkvtoolnix, mpeg4ip, ...) for import/export.

With 1.1.x and previous, it's the only way to go :\

Bests,

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