[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Fill unspecified AVCodec long_name fields

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:

>> > > --- libavcodec/h264.c	(revision 13009)
>> > > +++ libavcodec/h264.c	(working copy)
>> > > @@ -8087,6 +8087,7 @@
>> > >      .flush= flush_dpb,
>> > > +    .long_name = "H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 part 10",
>> > 
>> > I think it is MPEG-4 AVC.
>> 
>> As Loren also said, I think these names are more or less equivalent,
>> AVC is often used without any reference to MPEG-4, but I don't know do
>> as you prefer.
>
> I had never heard of just "AVC" without "MPEG-4", I committed with both
> variants.

It's quite common to call it just AVC.  For instance, that's how the
PS3 labels it.  It also, very confusingly, common to all it just
MPEG4, mostly in broadcast where nobody would dream of using MPEG4
part 2.

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