[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: [PATCH] DVCPRO50 support

[Roman Shaposhnick]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:40:08AM +0100, Baptiste COUDURIER wrote:
> Mans Rullgard wrote:
> > Baptiste COUDURIER said:
>
> They do not share parameters (different bitrates, different pixel
> formats) and in `industry` (ISO, MPEG, SMPTE) that means oftenly
> different specifications (for DV it IS the case), thats why they do have
> different names. 

  Just to make it clear -- I don't care how industry names things,
  but the fact that these 3 flavors of DV have the same picture encoding
  algorithms with small amount of knobs designed to address bitstream
  constraints and differences in sampling -- make them all just a DV
  codec in my book. Now, I do understand the convenience factor of having 
  them as separate codecs -- but lets not be confused by the ffmpeg's
  current restrictions.

  Now, DVCPRO 100 is, in fact a different CODEC regardless of the name
  being similar to the DVCPRO 50.

Thanks,
Roman.