On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 08:48:39PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le tiistaina 19. joulukuuta 2023, 18.58.40 EET Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
> > so the idea is that we cannot access any GUI in any code from anything in
> > libavformat and probably all other libs, ever
> 
> No. The idea is that a command line program cannot use the GUI, and a library 
> can only use the GUI if the main program is a GUI program.

with that, the obvious thought would be to have the user interface of ffmpeg
factored out and then the user can choose between a text based command line
and GUI interface. Thats not so trivial but its a clean way to do it.

This can form the basis of a video player, video editor and so on

thx

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