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authorDiego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>2006-01-14 14:46:26 +0000
committerDiego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>2006-01-14 14:46:26 +0000
commit3f1965c4ac0747ffc8986b290af4824c6fccf052 (patch)
treece85f90e8f91c9f2f7461e5e5487fff74b54f1c6
parentd66fbc14def2a0169ec21c2aaabacbb2056ab579 (diff)
downloadffmpeg-3f1965c4ac0747ffc8986b290af4824c6fccf052.tar.gz
Clarify codec addition instructions.
Originally committed as revision 4853 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
-rw-r--r--doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
index 6586343426..75088db5b0 100644
--- a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
@@ -1278,8 +1278,11 @@ please use av_log() instead.
Incrementing the third component means a noteworthy binary compatible
change (e.g. encoder bug fix that matters for the decoder).
@item
- If you add a new codec, remember to update the changelog, add it to the
- supported codecs table and bump the version number appropriately.
+ If you add a new codec, remember to update the changelog, add it to
+ the supported codecs table in the documentation and bump the second
+ component of the @file{libavcodec} version number appropriately. If
+ it has a fourcc, add it to @file{libavformat/avienc.c}, even if it
+ is only a decoder.
@end enumerate
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