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RFE: modular drivers (AOs, VOs, ...) #11138

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Currently mpv links to all its external dependencies (for AOs, VOs, etc) directly.
This means that binary distributions of mpv, like in Linux distributions will have hard dependencies on all compiled-in external dependencies which leads to fairly extensive dependency lists.

Instead the AOs and VOs could be compiled as dedicated shared libraries that can be loaded at runtime.
This would remove the hard dependencies. Instead mpv would try to load these new shared libraries and if they can not be loaded because of missing dependencies it would just be skipped.

Meson provides support for this natively with the shared_module() function.

If this is something that sounds interesting to the maintainers I am also offering to work on it.

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