[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: [Ffmpeg-cvslog] r6396 - trunk/doc/TODO

[Benjamin Larsson]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 9/30/06, michael <subversion at mplayerhq.hu> wrote:
>
>> Author: michael
>> Date: Sat Sep 30 18:06:07 2006
>> New Revision: 6396
>>
>> Modified:
>>   trunk/doc/TODO
>>
>> Log:
>> move things from my todo to the unassigned one so my lazyness doesnt
>> prevent others from working on them
>
>
> [..]
>
>> +- H264 encoder
>
>
> I'm a bit surprised... There has been at least 2 revisions of a patch
> to add a H.264 encoder submitted to ffmpeg ML... If getting an h264 is
> part of our charismatic leader's vision, why hasn't it gotten more
> attention?
> It is just a question of spending enough time on it to have a
> "mergeable" patch, or was the featured patch just too messy to be
> worth the effort?
>
> Guillaume

There was no motion estimation in it. And quite much work would be
needed to factor out the needed motion estimation code. That is what I
recall.

MvH
Benjamin Larsson

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