[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Implement pixdesc.h:write_line()

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Thursday 2009-04-02 01:27:18 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:02:34AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > Formats when possible have been tested with the vf_pixdesc_test
> > filter, included the monowhite and monoblack formats, with something
> > like:
> > 
> > ffplay in.avi -vfilters "format=gray,pixdesc_test"
> > 
> > Some formats cannot be tested this way, for example all the formats
> > not supported as output by sws, anyway I think that it's quite safe to
> > apply it anyway.
> > 
> > Many interesting problems remains opened, for example:
> > 
> > * How are we supposed to deal with HW accelerated pixel formats?  Are
> >   we supposed to add an entry in the pixdescs arrays for each of them?
> > 
> 
> > * It's not clear which should be the interaction between lsws and
> >   the pixdescs.
> > 
> >   Currently lsws doesn't depend on lavc, since the pixfmt descriptors
> >   may and should be used in libsws to avoid code duplication
> >   (e.g. sws_format_name()), we may either add lavc to the lsws
> >   dependancies *or* move all the pixdesc stuff to lavu.
> 
> why would lavc need the pixdescs ? if it doesnt they could be moved to sws

To retain in lavc all the functionality currently implemented in
imgconvert, which currently uses pixfmtinfo which we're trying to
dump and substitute with pixdescs.

Alternatively we could make lavc depend on lsws, but somehow doesn't
sound like a great idea...
 
> also let me repeat, 1 patch per mail please!
> if we ever implement the suggested patch tracker all mails with multiple
> patches will "disapear".
> its easy to search subjs for [PATCH], easy to search for looks ok and
> applied but this breaks down if there are multiple patches per mail
> besides its alot harder for me to keep track and i suspect also for
> others independant of any fancy tools
> also its hard to reply to a subset of patches in this mess mails.

OK sorry, the patches attached were meant to help to actually test the
write_line() patch. I'll repost them to separate threads.

Patch updated with the suggestions by Ben.

Regards.
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