avcodec_find_encoder_by_name() patch by Alex

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

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

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;