#codec-dependency

What are the trade-offs of disabling external codec support in OpenCV builds to guarantee consistent behavior across environments?

Goal: Ensure that OpenCV's image reading and writing functions behave identically when the same code is moved from a development workstation to a production container. Constraint: The development system may have newer versions of libjpeg, libpng, libtiff, or FFmpeg libraries, while the production image contains only a minimal set or different versions, leadi