> François Revol wrote: > > > Usually decoders are chosen automatically (on a first-found basis), > > unlike encoders which are usually presented as a list on a GUI. > > > > For ffdecoder i had a list of supported 4CCs but that was built-in > > the > > binary. > > I always had to rebuild it to change which I wanted to support. A > > settings file might be an acceptable solution I suppose. > > Just check for it and use a sensible default if it's not there. > > Doesn't encoders/decoders support BMediaThemes? Maybe we should have > a > encoder/decoder preferences tab in the media preferences panel. This > way > not only the user would have more control about formats but also > applications could integrate the config interface in themselves. Encoders can publish a BParameterWeb, but there is no provision for this for decoders, and that was for instance-related settings, not defaults. That can of course be changed... Yes we could add that to the Media preferences (I made a fake screenshot once showing that). François.