[XviD-devel] VFW cygwin support ?

peter ross xvid-devel@xvid.org
Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:15:02 +1000


>So i did some work on them, and i have a working patch for vfw. I know
>there are two  branches in vfw module (dev-api-3  and head). Which one
>do i commit to ?

commit your patch to whatever tree the patch works with.

>And i have another question (probably stupid, but this seems natural to a 
>unix guy) :
>
>   - why are you building a static lib in xvidcore
>   - then build a vfw that exports core symbols ?
>
>For me it would be more natural to have something like that :
>   - Build a dll libxvidcore.dll that exports xvid API (xvid_init,
>     xvid_encore, xvid_decore)
>   - Build the vfw driver on top of the libxvidcore.dll
>   - Vfw driver exports usual vfw symbols (Configure, DriverEntry iirc)
>
>For me it seems more logical that xvidcore exports its symbols and vfw
>driver exports  its symbols. I think  it's not logical to  build a vfw
>driver to have access to xvidcore. Comments are welcome.

this is prehistoric stuff from the days of opendivx. eg.
libdecore.lib + libencore.lib + divx4windows.obj => opendivx.dll

iam in favour of a sepereate libxvidcore.dll.

-- pete

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