[FFmpeg-devel] The New Flash Video

[Guillaume Poirier]

Hi,

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 09:03:51AM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
>> More:
>>
>> http://www.kaourantin.net/2007/08/what-just-happened-to-video-on-web_20.html
> 
> Hmmmm
> 
>   Overall though and leaving out the bugs I listed here which are my
>   fault, the H.264 decoder is a remarkable piece of engineering, it is
>   provided to us by MainConcept. It weights in at less than 100KB of
>   compressed code which is quite an achievement for such a complicated
>   standard.
> 
> How does this decoder compare to FFmpeg's?


Size concerns apart, IFAIK, MainConcept supports more interlaced
decoding modes than FFmpeg. It's however quite possible that Adobe
only bought "basic" decoding features...

Guillaume