[XviD-devel] "Generic" plugin mechanism

Marco Al xvid-devel@xvid.org
Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:12:04 +0100


Christoph Lampert wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Marco Al wrote:
>> I would prefer versioned libcores come to think of it, with the right one
>> being selected by the frontend (VfW or otherwise). This reminds me though of
>> the problem of configuration ... how do you perform platform independent
>> configuration? (A problem for the original scheme too.) Part textfiles, part
>> GUI (in the case of VfW) is a bit ugly ... but too much work to avoid I
>> guess.
>
> Simple: Let every GUI write a textfile and things are compatible again.

Programming a GUI which could configure any version/plugin (all with different
sets of relevant parameters) would be a nightmare, unless you intend to create a
plugin system for the front ends :)

Marco