[FFmpeg-devel] Notes about avdevice

[Don Moir]

> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 03:38:20AM -0500, Don Moir wrote:
>> >Don Moir <donmoir <at> comcast.net> writes:
>> >
>> >>1) avdevice has dependencies on avfilter and swresample.
>> >>I have no need for either of these and this is
>> >>unfortunate. It doesn't appear that these dependencies
>> >>can be turned off.
>> >
>> >Unreproducible.
>> >
>> >Carl Eugen
>>
>> If I try to use avdevice without avfilter-3.dll and swresample-0.dll
>> in place it complains. This is possibly due to lavfi.c in avdevice.
>
> The swresample dependency is because you have e.g. scale filter enabled
> in avfilter.
> The avfilter dependency is because you have the avfilter indev
> activated.

How do you build avdevice with no dependency on avfilter ?

> Also the device lists do _not_ go to stdout, they go to av_log.
> While hardly convenient, intercepting them certainly is feasible.

Yes correct and basically means the same thing to me and not useable. You never know what will come thru av_log and in my case I 
might have several videos playing along with camera support. Cameras get plugged in and unplugged and would need to update list 
periodically. I am not going to do something like try to read the av_log just so I can use avdevice. But getting the list in a 
modern way is easy along with the device resolutions and should be implemented in a modern way instead of something that goes back 
30 years.