[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] mpegvideo remove fourcc upper case conversion

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:52:19PM +0200, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Here is a patch to remove uppercase conversion of fourcc. That cause
> conversion if mpeg essence is stored in container which already have a
> fourcc (mov), and IMHO a codec should not alter fourcc.

rejected, this will break decoding of many old divx and xvid files
grep for codec_tag ...

btw, speaking of breaking stuff, did you test that the unconditional
setting of AVCodecContext.width/height in the mov/mp4 demuxer has no 
negative effects if they are wrong? (they are often wrong for mpeg4)

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