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

Diego Biurrun diego
Tue Apr 29 11:10:49 CEST 2008


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:18:14AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> 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.

This sentence no verb.

Diego




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