[Ffmpeg-devel] splitting libavformat

[Ramiro Polla]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> I've been thinking about $subject since the last round of build system
> changes that broke MPlayer.  We had to disable a ton of stuff in
> libavformat that we do not really need.  It seems to me that the
> underlying problem is that libavformat has become kind of a grab bag
> that contains a multitude of more or less unrelated things.
>
> We have support for grab devices and networking protocols as well as
> multimedia container formats.  IMO libavformat should only contain the
> latter, the former to could go into something like libavprotocols and
> libavgrab.
>
> Thoughts?
>   
That way libavformat would be free of os_support, like it should be =)

Ramiro Polla