On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Marc Giger <gigerst...@gmx.ch> wrote: > That's a very good point. Never thought about it in this detail. > Given that fact I have to admin that dynamic loading makes > less sense. There may still be some usecases e.g. vaapi where it > would make sense, but this seems to be the minority. >
I think the most obvious benefit at this point is something that was alluded to at the beginning of the discussion: avoidance of hard dependencies. There have been times I've run into issues because a shared library FFmpeg was linked against somehow got removed or was updated and broke compatibility. Dynamic loading allows the main binary to still function correctly if this occurs, with the issue only arising if the user attempts to use the missing library, in which case the methodology of doing dynamic loading allows for a graceful exit rather than the program crashing. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
