[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] IVF demuxer

[Peter Ross]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 06:06:01PM -0400, David Conrad wrote:
> On May 21, 2010, at 7:32 AM, John Koleszar wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Kostya <kostya.shishkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:47:47PM +0200, Maxim wrote:
> >>> Hi David,
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> 
> >>>> Some VP8 command-line tools use IVF for some reason...
> >>>> 
> >>> 
> >>> I'm glad you're working on this format! I have some IVF samples coded
> >>> with indeo5 whose seem to have a completely different format! The first
> >>> 16 bytes look like an unknown GUID, the following ones contain: standard
> >>> m$ video and audio descriptors, an frame index and frame data.
> >>> It would be very appreciated to have a support for IVF/indeo too...
> >>> Could you likely look into it?
> >> 
> >> I suspect that _your_ samples are real Indeo IVF while VP8 is stored into
> >> something homemade (since it's too simple) and "IVF" means something
> >> else like "idiotic video frames"
> >> 
> > 
> > That's about right. In all seriousness, I'd be interested moving to
> > use a more standard container of similar complexity for providing
> > basic packet framing and timestamping. I thought about (ab)using RTP,
> > but never had the time to look into it very far and given the limited
> > use/scope of ivf, there weren't any tangible advantages at the time.
> > If you have any suggestions, I'd be interested.
> 
> Does this IVF stand for anything?

Yep, it was born in a test tube.

-- Peter
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