avcodec_find_encoder_by_name() patch by Alex

Originally committed as revision 237 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
index 10d19a9c31..9b027091e2 100644
--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ void avcodec_init(void);
 
 void register_avcodec(AVCodec *format);
 AVCodec *avcodec_find_encoder(enum CodecID id);
+AVCodec *avcodec_find_encoder_by_name(const char *name);
 AVCodec *avcodec_find_decoder(enum CodecID id);
 AVCodec *avcodec_find_decoder_by_name(const char *name);
 void avcodec_string(char *buf, int buf_size, AVCodecContext *enc, int encode);
diff --git a/libavcodec/utils.c b/libavcodec/utils.c
index 01c1c13c65..0e6ba29d7a 100644
--- a/libavcodec/utils.c
+++ b/libavcodec/utils.c
@@ -155,6 +155,18 @@ AVCodec *avcodec_find_encoder(enum CodecID id)
     return NULL;
 }
 
+AVCodec *avcodec_find_encoder_by_name(const char *name)
+{
+    AVCodec *p;
+    p = first_avcodec;
+    while (p) {
+        if (p->encode != NULL && strcmp(name,p->name) == 0)
+            return p;
+        p = p->next;
+    }
+    return NULL;
+}
+
 AVCodec *avcodec_find_decoder(enum CodecID id)
 {
     AVCodec *p;