Going overboard again

avcodec_init();
/* register all the codecs */
avcodec_register_all();
AVCodec *codec;

I suppose I have gone overboard again and done video directly from the program to encoding and I am using "gluLookAt" to simply flip the camera upside down before I start and this saves some time in overall process, such that I can record video directly and have almost no impact on the performance. I am not sure I needed to control the process at this level, however I learn something new each time I hit my head on the -Wall.