[FFmpeg-devel] Using a codec-private AVOption in init()?

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:05:08AM -0700, Philip Langdale wrote:
> This one's got me quite confused. As far as I can tell, it's
> impossible to use an AVOption value in a codec's init function.
>
> av_opt_set_string3() and friends need to be passed the codec
> private context and will use the AVOption to discover the offset
> inside the context to write the value.
>
> However, the context isn't initialised until you call avcodec_open()
> which also calls the codec's init function before returning.
>
> Yet, there are multiple existing codecs that use AVOptions and use
> those values in init() (eg: vorbis, openamr-nb). Am I missing something
> or is this just broken?

you are missing avcodec_get_context_defaults3()

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